Federal Public Sector Labour Relations Act

Marginal note:Effect of certification

67 Certification of an employee organization as the bargaining agent for a bargaining unit has the following effects:

• (a) the employee organization has exclusive authority to bargain collectively on behalf of the employees in the bargaining unit;

• (b) the certification of any employee organization that was previously certified as the bargaining agent for any employees in the bargaining unit is deemed to be revoked to the extent that the certification relates to those employees;

• (c) the employee organization is substituted as a party to any collective agreement or arbitral award that affects any employees in the bargaining unit, to the extent that the agreement or award relates to those employees, in the place of the bargaining agent named in the collective agreement or its successor;

• (d) the employee organization is deemed to be the bargaining agent for the purposes of section 107; and

• (e) the employee organization is substituted as a party to any essential services agreement that is in force, in the place of the bargaining agent named in the agreement or its successor.