Audit, Financial and Scientific Group
We would like to provide an update on the PSTAR grievances, FPSLREB File Nos. 566.34.9832 & 9833 (Myles & Alcock). We are still waiting for the Labour Board (FPSLREB) to set hearing dates in these matters, however, we expect that it will later this year. As soon as the dates are set PIPSC will post them here on its website and we encourage you to visit the website in the coming weeks for updates on this matter.
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2018 AFS ANNUAL GENERAL MEETING
June 9, 2018 - 9:00 am to 5:00 pm
LORD ELGIN HOTEL, 100 Elgin St, Ottawa, ON
AFS AGM REGISTRATION:
JUNE 8 - 5:00 P.M. - 7:00 P.M. (HOSPITALITY ROOM – QUEBEC ROOM)
JUNE 9- 8:00 A.M. - 9:00 A.M. (LOBBY OF PEARSON ROOM)
VIRTUAL BINDER
TABLE OF CONTENTS
OTTAWA, April 3, 2018 – CRA has confirmed that a solution to the ongoing Phoenix issues is available. CRA has completed analysis on their corporate administration system (CAS) and it has the capacity to pay all CRA employees.
The AFS Bargaining Team met with senior CRA officials on Thursday, March 29th to sign the new AFS Collective Agreement and bring it into force. This collective agreement runs from December 22, 2014 to December 21, 2018.
We are pleased that this new agreement introduces numerous improvements to our members’ rights and brings in long awaited pay increases for all of our AFS members.
At the request of the AFS Group Executive and as per PIPSC By-Law 17.3.2.1, the PIPSC Elections committee is conducting the 2018 AFS Group election to the National AFS Group Executive. As per AFS Group By-Law 7.5.1 - the year before the year divisible by three (3), elections will be held for the President.
AFS Group By-Law 6.3: The term of office shall be three (3) years.
We'd like to provide an update on the PSTAR grievances, FPSLREB File Nos. 566.34.9832 & 9833 (Myles & Alcock). The Institute and the CRA had a pre-hearing conference on January 23 to resolve a number of procedural issues designed to streamline the hearing itself. The major issue is that the CRA asserted that the case itself should be split in half so that they could raise a technical objection to the Board's jurisdiction. Essentially, the CRA wanted to prevent a hearing on the merits (i.e. whether our members were entitled to severance).
The AFS Group Annual General Meeting will be held on Saturday, June 9, 2018 at the Lord Elgin Hotel in Ottawa. The AFS Group By-Laws provide for seventy (70) delegates including the eleven (11) members of the AFS Group Executive. The fifty-nine (59) official delegates are allocated on the basis of population by region and chosen by the Regional Representatives.