First

Session, 47th General Assembly

Elizabeth II, 2012

BILL 31

AN ACT TO AMEND THE

PUBLIC SERVICE COLLECTIVE BARGAINING ACT

Received and Read the First Time ...................................................................................................

Second Reading .................................................................................................................................

Committee ............................................................................................................................................

Third Reading .....................................................................................................................................

Royal Assent ......................................................................................................................................

HONOURABLE

THOMAS W. MARSHALL, Q.C.

Minister of Finance and President of Treasury Board

Ordered

to be printed by the Honourable House of Assembly

EXPLANATORY NOTES

This Bill would amend the Public Service Collective Bargaining Act to

provide that employees

occupying bargaining unit positions at the time they were transferred to the

Human Resource Secretariat, a division of Executive Council, continue,

notwithstanding that transfer, to be bargaining unit employees;

provide that the status of

those transferred employees as bargaining unit employees would continue during

the period they continued to occupy those positions or while they occupied

positions previously held by other bargaining unit employees who had been

transferred at the same time provided the position had not, at any time after

the transfer, been held by a non-bargaining unit employee.

A BILL

AN ACT TO AMEND THE PUBLIC SERVICE

COLLECTIVE BARGAINING ACT

Analysis

S.2 Amdt.

Interpretation

Commencement

Be it enacted by the Lieutenant-Governor and

House of Assembly in Legislative Session convened, as follows:

RSNL1990 cP-42

as amended

1. Subparagraph 2(1)(i)(xi) of the Public Service Collective Bargaining Act

is repealed and the following substituted:

(xi) who is employed in the Executive Council, except

(

A) persons employed in the establishment of the

Lieutenant Governor, and

(

B) persons employed in the Office of the Chief

Information Officer or the Human Resource Secretariat who, immediately prior to

their transfer to that office or secretariat, were members of a unit, while

they continue to hold the positions they held immediately prior to their

transfer or while they hold another position held by another person in the unit

who had been transferred at the same time, provided the position has not at any

time since the transfer been held by a person other than a member of a unit,

Commencement

2. This Act shall come into force on a day to be

proclaimed by the Lieutenant-Governor in Council.

William E. Parsons, Queen's Printer