Federal Public Sector Labour Relations Act

Marginal note:Notice

• 223 (1) A party who refers a grievance to adjudication must, in accordance with the regulations, give notice of the reference to the Board.

• Marginal note:Action to be taken by Chairperson

  (2) If the party specifies in the notice that an adjudicator is named in an applicable collective agreement, that an adjudicator has otherwise been selected by the parties or, if no adjudicator is so named or has been selected, that the party requests the establishment of a board of adjudication, then the Chairperson must, on receipt of the notice by the Board,

  • (a) if the grievance is one arising out of a collective agreement and an adjudicator is named in the agreement, refer the matter to the adjudicator;

  • (b) if the parties have selected an adjudicator, refer the matter to the adjudicator; and

  • (c) if a board of adjudication has been requested and the other party has not objected in the time provided for in the regulations, establish the board and refer the matter to it.

• Marginal note:Board seized of grievance

  (2.1) If the notice does not specify any of the things described in subsection (2), or if a board of adjudication has been requested and the other party has objected in the time provided for in the regulations, the Board is seized of the grievance.

• Marginal note:Conference

  (3) The Chairperson may, at any time after receipt of the notice, direct the parties to attend a conference in order to attempt to settle or simplify the issues in dispute.