Parliamentary Employment and Staff Relations Act — P-1.3 3
Definitions 3 In this Part, adjudicator means, subject to subsection 66(4), a member of the Board assigned to hear and determine a grievance referred to adjudication and includes, where the context permits, a board of adjudication established under section 65 and an adjudicator named in a collective agreement for the purposes of that agreement; ( arbitre ) arbitral award means an award made by the Board or an arbitrator appointed under section 49 in respect of a dispute; ( décision arbitrale ) bargaining agent means an employee organization (a) that has been certified by the Board as bargaining agent for a bargaining unit, and (b) the certification of which has not been revoked; ( agent négociateur ) bargaining unit means a group of two or more employees that is determined, in accordance with this Part, to constitute a unit of employees appropriate for collective bargaining; ( unité de négociation ) Board means the Federal Public Sector Labour Relations and Employment Board referred to in subsection 4(1) of the Federal Public Sector Labour Relations and Employment Board Act ; ( Commission ) Chairman [Repealed, 2003, c. 22, s. 182] Chairperson means the Chairperson of the Board; ( président ) collective agreement means an agreement in writing entered into under this Part between an employer, on the one hand, and a bargaining agent, on the other hand, containing provisions respecting terms and conditions of employment and related matters; ( convention collective ) conciliator means a person appointed by the Chairperson under section 40 to assist the parties to collective bargaining in reaching agreement; ( conciliateur ) Deputy Chairman [Repealed, 2003, c. 22, s. 182] dispute means a dispute or difference arising in connection with the conclusion, renewal or revision of a collective agreement, in respect of which arbitration is requested pursuant to section 50; ( différend ) employee means a person employed by an employer, other than (a) a person appointed by the Governor in Council, (b) a person not ordinarily required to work more than seven hundred hours in a calendar year or one-third of the normal period for persons doing similar work, whichever is greater, (c) a person employed on a casual or temporary basis, unless the person has been so employed for a period of six months or more, (d) a person employed in a managerial or confidential capacity, or (e) a person excluded from the application of this Part by section 4, and for the purposes of this definition a person does not cease to be employed by an employer by reason only of the person’s discharge contrary to this Part or any other Act of Parliament; ( employé ) employee organization means any organization of employees the purposes of which include the regulation of relations between an employer and its employees for the purposes of this Part and includes, unless the context otherwise requires, a council of employee organizations; ( organisation syndicale ) employer means (a) the Senate as represented by such committee or person as the Senate by its rules or orders designates for the purposes of this Part, (b) the House of Commons as represented by such committee or person as the House of Commons by its orders designates for the purposes of this Part, (c) the Library of Parliament as represented by the Parliamentary Librarian acting, subject to subsection 74(1) of the Parliament of Canada Act , on behalf of both Houses of Parliament, (d) the office of the Senate Ethics Officer as represented by the Ethics Officer, (e) the office of the Conflict of Interest and Ethics Commissioner as represented by the Conflict of Interest and Ethics Commissioner, (f) the Parliamentary Protective Service as represented by the Director of the Parliamentary Protective Service on behalf of the Speakers of the two Houses of Parliament, or (g) the office of the Parliamentary Budget Officer as represented by the Parliamentary Budget Officer; ( employeur ) grievance means a complaint in writing