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This enactment amends the Parliamentary Employment and Staff
Relations Act to ensure that staff of members of the Senate and the
House of Commons, who serve them in the capacity of member, leader,
house leader or whip, will not be prevented from being included in a
bargaining unit. This covers caucus staff, parliamentary committee
staff, and staff in a minister's office who are hired under the
Parliamentary Employment and Staff Relations Act, but not staff in a
minister's office who are hired under the Public Service Employment
Act.
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To achieve its objectives, the enactment
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(a) replaces the provision that Part I of the Act does not apply to those
staff;
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(b) adds members of both Houses to the definition ``employer''; and
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(c) excludes persons employed under the Public Service
Employment Act from the definition ``employee'', so that the staff in
a minister's office who were hired under that Act are not within that
definition.
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The enactment also forbids lockouts by employers of their
employees and provides for penalties for those causing lockouts. This
makes the Act consistent in its provisions respecting strikes and
lockouts.
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The commencement provision of the Act is amended to ensure that
all of the provisions of the Act that have not previously been brought
into force will come into force not later than the coming into force of this
enactment.
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