Federal Public Sector Labour Relations Act

Marginal note:Unfair labour practices — employee organizations

188 No employee organization and no officer or representative of an employee organization or other person acting on behalf of an employee organization shall

• (a) except with the consent of the employer, attempt, at an employee’s place of employment during the employee’s working hours, to persuade the employee to become, to refrain from becoming, to continue to be or to cease to be a member of an employee organization;

• (b) expel or suspend an employee from membership in the employee organization or deny an employee membership in the employee organization by applying its membership rules to the employee in a discriminatory manner;

• (c) take disciplinary action against or impose any form of penalty on an employee by applying the employee organization’s standards of discipline to that employee in a discriminatory manner;

• (d) expel or suspend an employee from membership in the employee organization, or take disciplinary action against, or impose any form of penalty on, an employee by reason of that employee having exercised any right under this Part or Part 2 or having refused to perform an act that is contrary to this Part; or

• (e) discriminate against a person with respect to membership in an employee organization, or intimidate or coerce a person or impose a financial or other penalty on a person, because that person has

  • (i) testified or otherwise participated or may testify or otherwise participate in a proceeding under this Part or Part 2,

  • (ii) made an application or filed a complaint under this Part or presented a grievance under Part 2, or

  • (iii) exercised any right under this Part or Part 2.