Representation
Representing our members is the core of CEIU’s mandate.
Explore this page for information on grievances, Phoenix, duty to accommodate and more.
Representation
Representing our members is the core of CEIU’s mandate.
Explore this page for information on grievances, Phoenix, duty to accommodate and more.
Representing our members is the core of CEIU’s mandate.
Explore this page for information on grievances, Phoenix, duty to accommodate and more.
Looking for help at work?
This information on this page is intended for shop stewards and local executives.
If you’re experiencing an issue at work, your local is your first point of contact.
Having trouble find your local? Please contact your Regional Union Office.
Grievances
Resources for members and shop stewards on grievances, how they work, and how to file a grievance.
As a CEIU member, you are covered by the Program and Administrative Services (PA) Group Collective Agreement.
Read your collective agreement now.
National Union Representatives provide representation training. To request training for your local, please reach out to your Regional National Vice President.
National Union Representatives can provide training on the following topics:
- Administrative Investigations
- Discipline
- Duty to Accommodate (DTA)
- Employment Equity
- Grievance Handling
- Local Administration
- Occupational Health and Safety
- Staffing Complaints
For more training opportunities, visit our Tools for Locals and Activists page.
The duty to accommodate is the duty of employers to make sure that their workplaces are inclusive and allow all workers to participate fully. This duty relates to the grounds of discrimination in human rights laws.
What does this mean?
The employer must design policies, procedures, requirements, standards and practices so that they do not create barriers to employees’ participation based on human rights grounds.
The employer must adapt the workplace (physical work space, equipment, workplace rules, practices etc.) to ensure that individual workers can fully participate.
Duty to accommodate: A PSAC guide for local representatives | Public Service Alliance of Canada
The Public Service Alliance of Canada has a range of resources to address workplace violence, harassment, and domestic violence.
CEIU is dedicated to supporting members with workplace matters, but there are certain issues where we do not provide direct representation. Although we cannot represent members in these areas, we want to ensure that you have access to helpful resources.
Issues not handled by CEIU:
The PSAC Shop Steward Toolkit provides foundational guidance for all shop stewards.
The employer may choose to examine events that occur in the workplace or with a connection to the workplace when there may have been a violation of certain legislation and/or employer policies.
Worker’s compensation has been around for more than 100 years. Despite its history, compensation and how it applies across the country is often misunderstood.
Are you concerned with the recruitment, appointment, or layoff of personnel in the federal public service?
Looking at decisions made by the Canadian Human Rights Tribunal and the higher courts can help you prepare and argue your case.
Tribunal decisions can help you understand how the Tribunal applies the law and how the Tribunal process works.
The Canadian Human Rights Commission is Canada’s national human rights institution.
They have useful information on discrimination and harassment, accessibility, duty to accommodate, human rights, pay equity, and more.
The goal of the Association of Public Service Alliance Retirees (APSAR) is to provide resources to all retired former PSAC members and those over 50 years old. We are a united front, protecting the interests of retired union members, or those who are set to leave the public service soon.
APSAR serves retirees in the following ways:
- We keep our members informed about issues related to pensions in the federal public service and beyond.
- We ensure that all PSAC members, all retired former PSAC members and their spouses, beneficiaries or survivors obtain and receive all of the benefits due to them.
- We monitor any changes to member contributions to pension plans and criticize them when we feel they are excessive.
- We defend, safeguard, and seek to improve all of the provisions of the Public Service Superannuation Act, the Canada Pension Plan, the Quebec Pension Plan and Old Age Security, so that all retirees and elderly people can obtain the services that meet their needs.
Membership form – Association of Public Service Retirees
For more information on retiring from the federal public service, read these useful tips, view this video, and bookmark this landing page.
