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CHAPTER P-41.1

PUBLIC SECTOR RESTRAINT ACT, 1992

Amended:

1992 c53; 1994 c11 s8; 2001 cN-3.1 s2

CHAPTER P-41.1

AN ACT TO EXTEND RESTRAINT OF

COMPENSATION IN THE PUBLIC SECTOR OF THE PROVINCE

(Assented to June 11, 1992)

Analysis

Short title

Definitions

Crown bound

Application

No increase in compensation

Exceptions

Effect on collective agreements

Arbitration awards

Pay equity

Bargaining in restraint period

Election not effective

11.1

Effect of expiry of restraint period

1991 c.3 Rep.

Commencement

Schedule A

Schedule B

Be it enacted by the Lieutenant-Governor and House of Assembly in Legislative Session convened, as follows:

Short title

This Act may be cited as the Public Sector Restraint Act, 1992.

1992 cP-41.1 s1

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Definitions

In this Act

(a)

"collective agreement" means an agreement in writing entered into between a public sector employer and a bargaining agent containing provisions respecting pay scales and working conditions for public sector employees and includes an arbitration award and an adjudication judgment;

(b)

"pay equity agreement" means an agreement between a public sector employer and a group of public sector employees to recognize the compensation practice which is based primarily on the relative value of the work performed, irrespective of the gender of employees, and includes a requirement that no employer shall establish or maintain a difference between compensation paid to male and female employees, employed by that employer, who are performing work of equal or comparable value;

(c)

"pay scales" means pay scales and other monetary benefits paid or provided, directly or indirectly, by or on behalf of a public sector employer to or for the benefit of a public sector employee, and includes the monetary benefits contained in the Labrador Benefits Agreement between the Crown and various parties signed on May 7, 1990;

(d)

"public sector employee" means every person employed by

(

i) the government of the province,

(ii)

a Crown agency, board, commission, authority or other body of the Crown funded in whole or in part from money voted from time to time by the Legislature, but does not include a municipality or city in the province,

(iii)

a corporation in which not less than 90% of all the issued common shares are owned by the Crown in right of the province,

(iv)

a corporation established by

an Act under which the corporation is made an agent of the Crown in right of the province,

(

v) a corporation, body or authority managing a hospital, included in the

Schedule to

the Hospitals Act,

(vi)

the

Memorial

University

Newfoundland

and any agency, board, commission or other body funded or owned by the University,

(vii)

a college established or continued under

the Colleges Act, 1991,

(viii)

an employer to which

the Public Service Collective Bargaining Act

applies,

(ix)

a denominational education council referred to in

the Department of Education Act,

(

x) a school tax authority appointed under

the School Tax Act,

(xi)

a school board or a group of school boards constituted by or under or continued by the Schools Act,

including every teacher to whom

the Teachers' Collective Bargaining Act

applies, and

(xii)

a public sector employer listed in the

Schedule to this Act or added to the

Schedule by an order which the Lieutenant-Governor in Council may make;

(e)

"public sector employer" means an employer which employs a public sector employee; and

(f)

"restraint period" means a period of 24 months beginning

(

i) in relation to a collective agreement or other contractual arrangement which expired before

April 1, 1991

, on the date of expiry,

(ii)

in relation to a collective agreement or other contractual arrangement in force on April 1, 1991 which provides for an increase to pay scales after March 31, 1991, or which contains a clause requiring parties to the agreement or arrangement to conduct negotiations towards a revision of pay scales, on the date of the 1st scheduled increase after March 31, 1991 or on the date negotiations were scheduled to begin after March 31, 1991, and

(iii)

in relation to a collective agreement or other contractual arrangement in force on April 1, 1991 which does not provide for an increase to pay scales after March 31, 1991, on the date of expiry.

1992 cP-41.1 s2 ; 1992 c53 s1

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Crown bound

This Act is binding on the Crown in right of the province.

1992 cP-41.1 s3

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Application

(1) For the purposes of this Act,

(

a) officers and employees of Government House;

(

b) members of the Executive Council of Newfoundland and

Labrador

and their staff;

(

c) members, officers and employees of the House of Assembly;

(

d) officers and employees of the Supreme Court of Newfoundland and

Labrador

(

e) Provincial Court judges and the officers and employees of the Provincial Court of Newfoundland and

Labrador

; and

(

f) statutory office holders including the Auditor General and the Comptroller General of Finance,

are considered to be public sector employees.

(2) This Act applies to every public sector employee.

(3) This Act applies to

Provincial Court

judges notwithstanding the

Provincial Court

Act, 1991

(4) A report of a tribunal respecting salaries and benefits of judges and the chief judge prepared under

section 28 of the

Provincial Court

Act, 1991

shall not be implemented during the restraint period.

(5) For the purpose of subsection (4) the restraint period in its application to provincial court judges and the chief judge shall be considered to have begun on

April 1, 1992

1992 cP-41.1 s4 ; 1992 c53 s2 ; 2001 cN-3.1 s2

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No increase in compensation

(2) -Rep. 1992 c53 s3

(3) Where there is a provision in a collective agreement or other contractual arrangement respecting employment which provides that pay scales applicable during the restraint period are higher than those pay scales in effect at the beginning of the restraint period that provision is void.

(4) &

(5) Rep. 1992 c53 s3

(6) The President of the Treasury Board shall re-calculate the pay scales which

(

a) are scheduled to come into force during and after the restraint period in accordance with this section; and

(

b) are contained in all collective agreements affected by this Act.

(7) The re-calculated pay scales referred to in subsection (6) shall be published in the Gazette

and shall upon publication be considered to replace those pay scales as provided for in a collective agreement before being re-calculated in accordance with this section.

1992 cP-41.1 s5

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Exceptions

(1) An amount required to be paid under a pay equity agreement may be paid notwithstanding

section 5.

(2) The pay scales of a group of public sector employees contained in

Schedule B are exempt from the application of

section 5 effective

April 1, 1992

to the extent set out in the Schedule.

1992 cP-41.1 s6

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Effect on collective agreements

Notwithstanding amendments to collective agreements by reason of this Act, all collective agreements remain in full force and effect for their term.

1992 cP-41.1 s7

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Arbitration awards

Notwithstanding another Act, where the Lieutenant-Governor in Council determines that an arbitration award or adjudication judgment is made in contemplation of or to compensate for the restraint period even where there are no compensation increases during the restraint period, the Lieutenant-Governor in Council may set aside or modify that award or judgment in order to comply with the intent and purpose of this Act.

1992 cP-41.1 s8

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Pay equity

(2) Where there is a provision in a pay equity agreement which provides that the pay equity agreement shall be implemented retroactively, that provision is void.

(3) Notwithstanding the other provisions of this Act, a pay equity agreement may be negotiated or implemented, but the 1st pay equity wage adjustment date shall be the date on which the pay equity wage adjustment is agreed upon.

(4) This

section applies whether a pay equity agreement is reached or a pay equity wage adjustment date is agreed upon before or after the date this Act comes into force.

1992 cP-41.1 s9

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Bargaining in restraint period

(1) Notwithstanding the other provisions of this Act, where a collective agreement or other contractual arrangement expires during the 24 months of the restraint period and a new agreement or arrangement is entered into, the new agreement or arrangement may provide for an increase to components of the pay scales or other items contained in the agreement or arrangement where there is an equivalent decrease to other components of the pay scales or other items contained in the agreement or arrangement, but the cost to government directly or indirectly of the implementation of the new agreement or arrangement shall not, during the restraint period, exceed in total the expired agreement or arrangement.

(2) Rep. 192 c53 s4

(3) (4) Nothing in this Act precludes the parties to a collective agreement or other contractual arrangement, by mutual agreement, from varying components of the pay scales or other items contained in the agreement or arrangement but a variation in a component of the pay scales or other items is subject to the provisions of subsection (3).

1992 cP-41.1 s10 ; 1992 c53 s4

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Election not effective

Where a bargaining agent elected to extend a collective agreement or other contractual arrangement under subsection 6(1) of the Public Sector Restraint Act

, that election is of no effect.

1992 cP-41.1 s11

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Effect of expiry of restraint period

11.1

Where, on the expiry of the restraint period, a collective agreement or other contractual arrangement to which this Act applies continues in force, the provisions of the collective agreement or arrangement respecting pay scales are of no effect and the pay scales which applied during the restraint period to the public sector employees covered by the collective agreement or arrangement shall continue to apply until new pay scales are agreed to by a public sector employer and the bargaining agent representing public sector employees.

1992 c53 s5

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1991 c.3 Rep.

The Public Sector Restraint Act

is repealed.

1992 cP-41.1 s12

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Commencement

This Act is considered to have come into force on

March 31, 1991

1992 cP-41.1 s13

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Schedule A

Advisory Council on the Economy

Agricultural Products Marketing Board

Alcohol and Drug Dependency Commission

Board of Commissioners of Public Utilities

C.A.

Pippy Park Commission

Churchill Falls

Labrador

) Corporation

Economic Recovery Commission

Enterprise

Newfoundland

and Labrador Corporation

Farm Development Loan Board

Fisheries Loan Board of

Newfoundland

and

Labrador

Heritage Foundation of

Newfoundland

and

Labrador

Livestock Owners Compensation Board

Lower Churchill Development Corporation Limited

Marystown Shipyard Limited

Newfoundland

and

Labrador

Cancer Treatment & Research Foundation

Newfoundland

and

Labrador

Chicken Marketing Board

Newfoundland

and Labrador Crop Insurance Agency

Newfoundland

Egg Marketing Board

Newfoundland

and Labrador Farm Products Corporation

Newfoundland Hardwoods Limited

Newfoundland

and

Labrador

Hog Marketing Board

Newfoundland

and

Labrador

Arts Council

Newfoundland

and Labrador Housing Corporation

Newfoundland

and Labrador Hydro Corporation

Newfoundland

and

Labrador

Youth Advisory Board

Newfoundland

and

Labrador

Legal Aid Commission

Newfoundland

and Labrador Liquor Corporation

Newfoundland

Medical Care Commission

Newfoundland

Milk Marketing Board

Newfoundland

and

Labrador

Public Service Commission

Provincial Advisory Council on the Status of Women -

Newfoundland

and

Labrador

Provincial Planning Appeal Board

Provincial Public Libraries Board

Workers' Compensation Commission

Workers' Compensation Appeal Tribunal

1992 cP-41.1 Sch A ; 1994 c11 s8 ; 2001 cN-3.1 s2

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Schedule B

HOSPITAL CLASSES

Pay Level

Specification

Number

Classification

Old

New

Psychiatric Therapy Aide I

HS-18

HS-20

Psychiatric Therapy Aide II

HS-20

HS-22

Psychiatric Therapy Aide III

HS-22

HS-24

Driver/Psychiatric Attendant

HS-18

HS-20

Urodynamics Technician

HS-21

HS-23

Ambulance Dispatcher I

HS-20

HS-22

Ambulance Dispatcher II

HS-26

HS-28

Respiratory Technician II

HS-18

HS-20

Psychiatric Community Worker

HS-23

HS-25

OTHER GROUPS

Student Assistants

Hourly Rate Pay Level

Old Rate

New Step I

New Step 2

New Step 3

$7.43

$10.26

$10.61

$10.96

All Employees will move to Step I effective

April 1, 1992

Faculty & librarians of the Memorial University of Newfoundland which the Board of Regents and the Memorial University of Newfoundland Faculty Association agree are eligible to receive an internal anomaly adjustment within the pay scales.

1992 cP-41.1 Sch B ; 1994 c11 s8

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