Parliamentary employees

• Author: Christopher Rootham
• Pages: 485-498

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PARLIAMENTARY EMPLOYEES

A. INTRODUCTION

As stated in Chapter ree, employees of the House of C ommons, Senate, and

Library of Parliame nt are not covered by the Public Ser vice Labour Relations

Act or the Public Ser vice Employment Act, nor are they covered by t he Canada

Labour Code. Instead, t hey are covered by the Parliamentary Employment and

Sta Relations Act. When PESRA was rst enacted in , it was designed to be

very simila r to the Public Service Sta Relations Act then in force. As discussed

in previous chapters, the Public Service Sta Re lations Act underwent some sig-

nicant revi sions in , and then agai n in  when it became t he PSLRA.

PESRA , on the other hand, has not undergone the se same revisions. erefore,

some of PESRA is di erent from the current PSLR A because of changes to the

PSLRA, and some of PES RA is dierent from the PSLRA because of dierences

deliberately made when PESR A was enacted. However, for the most part, PESR A

is very simila r to the PSLRA. It is ad ministered by the Pu blic Service L abour

Relations Board (PSLRB), and the Boa rd follows precedent from PSLRA in decid-

 erewereroughlyemployeesoftheHouseofCommonsin,andanotherere were roughly  e mployees of the House of Commons in , a nd another 

employees of the Librar y of Parliament. e Senate ha d roughly  employees in .

See Vaid v. Canada (House of Commons), []  S.C.R.  at para.  [Vai d], a nd also

e Senate of Canada Annua l Report –, online: w ww.parl.gc.ca/infor mation/

about/process/Senate/AnnualRep//pdf/AnnualRep-e.pdf.

Public Serv ice Labour Relations Act , S.C. , c. , s.  [PSLRA]; Public Serv ice Em-

ployment Act, S.C . , c. , ss.  & ; Canada Labour Code, R.S.C. , c. L- . See

House of Commons v. Canad a (Labour Relations Board), []  F.C.  (C.A.).

Parliamentary Employ ment and Sta Relations Act, R .S.C.  (nd Supp.), c. 

[PESRA].

Public Serv ice Sta Relations Act, S.C. –, c. ; Public Ser vice Sta Relations Ac t,

R.S., , c. P-.

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