Bill C-435

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	SUMMARY
	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.
	To achieve its objectives, the enactment
	(a) replaces the provision that Part I of the Act does not apply to those staff;
	(b) adds members of both Houses to the definition ``employer''; and
	(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.
	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.
	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.