Mandate of the PSLRB

The Public Service Labour Relations Board (PSLRB) is an independent quasi-judicial statutory tribunal responsible for administering the collective bargaining and grievance adjudication systems in the federal public service, the Parliament of Canada and the Government of Yukon.

Federal public service

Section 13 of the Public Service Labour Relations Act (PSLRA) sets out the mandate of the Public Service Labour Relations Board:

"The Board's mandate is to provide adjudication services, mediation services and compensation analysis and research services in accordance with this Act."

The federal public service includes the departments named in Schedule I of the Financial Administration Act, the other portions of the public service named in Schedule IV, and the separate agencies named in Schedule V.

Parliament of Canada

Part I of the Parliamentary Employment and Staff Relations Act (PESRA) is administered and applied by the Public Service Labour Relations Board.

Part I of PESRA gives employees of parliamentary institutions the right to form a union in order to negotiate collectively the conditions of their employment. It also gives these employees the right to lodge grievances concerning these conditions and, in certain cases, to refer these grievances to adjudication before a neutral third party.

PESRA covers employees working in the House of Commons, the Senate, the Library of Parliament, and the Office of the Conflict of Interest and Ethics Commissioner.

Government of Yukon

Under an agreement with the Yukon government, the PSLRB administers the collective bargaining and grievance adjudication systems under the Yukon Education Labour Relations Act and the Yukon Public Service Labour Relations Act. When performing these functions funded by the Yukon government, the PSLRB acts as the Yukon Teachers Labour Relations Board and the Yukon Public Service Labour Relations Board, respectively.