Parliamentary Employment and Staff Relations Act

Marginal note:Definitions

• 87 (1) The following definitions apply in this Part.

  Board

  Board has the same meaning as in section 3. (Commission)

  employee

  employee means a person employed by an employer and includes the person occupying the recognized position of Clerk of the Senate, Clerk of the House of Commons, Gentleman Usher of the Black Rod, Sergeant-at-Arms or Law Clerk and Parliamentary Counsel of the House of Commons. (employé)

  employer

  employer means

  • (a) the Senate as represented by any committee or person that the Senate by its rules or orders designates for the purposes of this Part;

  • (b) the House of Commons as represented by any committee or person that the House of Commons by its orders designates for the purposes of this Part;

  • (c) the Library of Parliament as represented by the Parliamentary Librarian acting, subject to subsection 74(1) of the Parliament of Canada Act, on behalf of both Houses of Parliament;

  • (d) the office of the Senate Ethics Officer as represented by the Senate Ethics Officer;

  • (e) the office of the Conflict of Interest and Ethics Commissioner as represented by the Conflict of Interest and Ethics Commissioner;

  • (f) the Parliamentary Protective Service as represented by the Director of the Parliamentary Protective Service on behalf of the Speakers of the two Houses of Parliament;

  • (g) the office of the Parliamentary Budget Officer as represented by the Parliamentary Budget Officer;

  • (h) a member of the House of Commons who employs one or more persons or who has the direction or control of staff employed to provide research or associated services to the caucus members of a political party represented in the House of Commons;

  • (i) in the case of a person occupying the recognized position of Clerk of the Senate, Clerk of the House of Commons, Gentleman Usher of the Black Rod, Sergeant-at-Arms or Law Clerk and Parliamentary Counsel of the House of Commons, the Senate or the House of Commons, as the case may be, as represented by the committee or person described in paragraph (a) or (b); or

  • (j) any other person who is recognized as an employer in regulations made under subsection 19.5(1) of the Parliament of Canada Act or by-laws made under section 52.5 of that Act. (employeur)

• Marginal note:Meaning of employer

  (2) The definition employer in subsection (1) includes any person who acts on behalf of an employer.