Order Amending Schedule V to the Financial Administration Act: SOR/2024-182

Canada Gazette, Part II, Volume 158, Number 21

Registration
SOR/2024-182 September 20, 2024

FINANCIAL ADMINISTRATION ACT

P.C. 2024-1022 September 20, 2024

Whereas the portion of the federal public administration named in Schedule Vfootnote a to the Financial Administration Act footnote b as Statistics Survey Operations no longer has any employees;

Therefore, Her Excellency the Governor General in Council, on the recommendation of the Minister of Industry, makes the annexed Order Amending Schedule V to the Financial Administration Act under subsection 3(8)footnote c of the Financial Administration Act footnote b.

Order Amending Schedule V to the Financial Administration Act

Amendment

1 Schedule V to the Financial Administration Act footnote b is amended by deleting the following:

Coming into Force

2 This Order comes into force on the day on which it is registered.

REGULATORY IMPACT ANALYSIS STATEMENT

(This statement is not part of the Order.)

Issues

In 1987, Statistics Survey Operations (SSO), a program of Statistics Canada, was established as a separate agency (under Schedule V of the Financial Administration Act [FAA]) under the responsibility of the Chief Statistician of Canada, as deputy head for Statistics Canada. This was in response to a 1985 arbitration decision by the Public Service Staff Relations Board (now known as the Federal Public Sector Labour Relations and Employment Board), which established SSO as a separate bargaining unit to permit persons employed in SSO to be represented by a bargaining agent and to pursue their unique workplace interests through collective bargaining. At the time, it was operationally advantageous for SSO employees to be represented by a separate bargaining agent, since their terms and conditions of employment differed substantially from those of the Program and Administrative Services (PA) group; however, this is no longer the case.

As of November 23, 2023, all SSO employees have been appointed to the core public administration and are now subject to the PA group collective agreement. There will be no future appointments of employees to the SSO bargaining unit. Therefore, there is no need to maintain SSO as a separate agency under Schedule V of the FAA.

As per subsection 3(8) of the FAA, the Governor in Council may, by Order, delete the name of any portion of the federal public administration named in Schedule V of the FAA, without the need to add the name to Schedule IV, if that portion no longer has any employees.

Objective

The amendment has the following objective:

Description and rationale

The portion of the federal public administration named in Schedule V to the FAA as SSO no longer has any employees. Therefore, SSO should be deleted from Schedule V of the FAA.

One-for-one rule

The one-for-one rule does not apply to this amendment, as there is no change in administrative costs or burden to businesses.

Small business lens

Analysis under the small business lens determined that the amendment will not impact small businesses in Canada.

Contact

Melanie Forsberg
Director General
Workforce and Workplace Branch
Corporate Strategy and Management Field
Statistics Canada
Telephone: 613‑790‑3921
Email: Melanie.Forsberg@statcan.gc.ca