ADMS 2400 Lecture 24: ADMS 2400 Lecture 24 Notes
3 May 2018
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ADMS 2400 Lecture 24 Notes –Collective Bargaining
Introduction
• Ultimately, the new rules for collective bargaining have decreased the power of unions
that represent federal public servants and make it more likely that affected union
members will agree to concessions if they consider strike action undesirable.
• The federal government has also placed limits on the factors that arbitrators and
conciliation boards can consider when they provide decisions on disputes for federal
unions.
• They are required to focus on two factors
• The fedeal goeet’s fisal iustaes elatie to its udgeta poliies ad
the ability to recruit and retain employees.
• The labour board had previously concluded that those two preconditions favored the
federal government to an excessive degree
• Despite this conclusion, Clement made the preconditions law a few months later.
• In 2014, Clement announced that the federal government would revamp the public
seie’s sik leae poli.
• Under the new collective bargaining rules, federal public service unions are seriously
limited in resolving any disputes over sick leave.
• Ude the fedeal goeet’s eistig sik leae poli, fedeal puli seats eeie
15 days of paid sick leave per year.
• Uused das a e aied oe to suseuet eas a poess ko as akig
and then be used as needed.
• I soe ases, eploees a ed up ith a eeks aked.
• This can help them get through a prolonged illness or major injuries, since it takes 65
days to become eligible for long-term disability payments.
• Clement points out that the existing sick leave policy creates significant liabilities on the
government balance sheet, since the government needs to account for the potential use
of banked sick days.
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