The Collective Agreement covering the period from May 9th 2014 to May 9th 2018 came into effect this week on November 7th 2018.

You may recall that in February of this year, after our success in the Supreme Court of Canada , we reached an interim agreement with the Employer on Standby duty and Call back.

On Friday, we were advised that the Employer will not meet its legal duty to issue the arbitral award retroactive payout before November 7 as ordered.

The issue is the prorating of performance pay in relation to pre-promotion period for the year in which lawyers are promoted.

The AJC Negotiations Team (NT) has been very busy since filing our Notice to Bargain. Here's what you need to know

Please note that we have extended the deadline to respond to the Bargaining survey until Sunday, October 7th 2018 at midnight.

As we indicated to members in May, the Federal Public Sector Labour Relations and Employment Board (Board) concluded that management's unilateral directive on the leave reconciliation exercise was unreasonable and unfair.

DEAR AJC MEMBERS - after an excessively long wait we finally received the decision from the chair of our conciliation panel.

As we near our eighth month, we are all acutely aware that we still do not have a decision on the issues raised during our conciliation hearing.

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As was explained in greater detail at the AGM, we have no control over the panel, and are as anxious as all of you to receive a decision.

As we maintained throughout, the retroactive reconciliation exercise imposed on our membership by the employer for 2007-2008, 2008-2009, 2009-2010, 2010-2011, 2011-2012 and 2012-2013, violates section 5.02 of the collective agreement.

Have you been stuck in the same LP Classification for years while performing higher level LP work without getting "acting pay" on a frequent, daily and substantial basis (not temporarily)?

On April 10, 2017, a Quebec City based law firm (Sarailis Avocat) applied to certify a class action against the Government of Canada in relation to Phoenix.

The AJC agreed with the Employer's proposal that employee excess balances of vacation and compensatory leave not be automatically cashed-out, unless requested by the employee.