Bill C-10

The Ontario Court of Appeal upheld the Ontario Superior Court decision that Bill C-10, the Expenditure Restraint Act, did not violate the Charter rights of federal public service workers.

Bill C-10, passed by the former Conservative government in 2009, rolled back negotiated wage increases for federal public sector workers.

PSAC appealing decision on Bill C-10, the Expenditure Restraint Act 

In 2009, PSAC challenged the constitutionality of the Expenditure Restraint Act which rolled-back existing collective agreements in the federal public service and imposed restraints on the rates of pay that could be negotiated in collective agreements during the restraint period.

This case was argued in October and November 2013 and we received the decision dismissing our case in February.

The Supreme Court of Canada has decided not to hear PSAC’s legal challenge to the previous Conservative government’s budget bill that rolled back negotiated wage increases for federal public service workers.

The union argued that the legislation violated the Charter rights of PSAC members under section 2(d) “freedom of association”.