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AJC Ratifies a New Collective Agreement
Monday, August 12, 2019
On Friday August 9, 2019, AJC members ratified a new collective agreement with their employer, putting an end to the bargaining process until 2022.
The union's negotiating team reached a tentative agreement with Treasury Board in July after multiple bargaining sessions in 2018 and 2019....
Bargaining Update: Tentative Agreement Reached with the Employer 2018-2019 Negotiations
Thursday, July 18, 2019
Dear AJC members,
Your Negotiations Team is pleased to report that we have reached a tentative agreement with the Employer. The agreement in principle will see our members receive an 8.26% increase...
Bargaining Update: Tentative Collective Agreement reached with the Employer
Thursday, July 18, 2019
Dear AJC members,
Your Negotiations Team is pleased to report that we have reached a tentative agreement with the Employer. The agreement in principle will see our members receive an 8.26% increase in pay over 4 years and includes an agreement to complete two (2) joint pay studies...
Phoenix Damages: AJC members will see their Leave Banks credited next week
Friday, July 12, 2019
As your AJC President and co-chair the Subcommittee on Phoenix Damages, I am pleased to announce that leave banks for the first phase of the Phoenix Damages Settlement for LP's working at DOJ and PPSC should be credited next week. We are told that AJC members will be the first public service...
Bargaining Update #6 2018-2019 Negotiations
Friday, June 28, 2019
The AJC met with the Employer on June 25th and 26th in bargaining sessions. After having our dates in May cancelled by the employer, the Negotiations Committee is pleased to report we made good progress in negotiations this week. We have committed to additional dates next week, on July 4th and...
Bargaining Update
Friday, June 28, 2019
The AJC met with the Employer on June 25th and 26th in bargaining sessions. After having our dates in May cancelled by the employer, the Negotiations Committee is pleased to report we made good progress in negotiations this week. We have committed to additional dates next week, on July 4th and...
Qualifying Retroactive Lump Sum Payment forms
Friday, June 21, 2019
Many members have received the T1198 Qualifying Retroactive Lump Sum Payment (QRLSP) form from PSPC relating to having payouts received as part of the conciliation award taxes as if they had been earned in prior years.
It is our understanding that the forms provided to our members were...
SENATE ACKNOWLEDGES UNDERFUNDING OF CANADA'S CROWN PROSECUTORS
Wednesday, June 12, 2019
Last week, the Standing Senate Committee on Legal and Constitutional Affairs presented its report on Bill C-75, An Act to amend the Criminal Code, the Youth Criminal Justice Act and other Acts and to make consequential amendments to other Acts.
Touted as the Government's response to the...
THE AJC JOINS THE FIGHT TO STOP CUTS TO LEGAL AID ONTARIO
Monday, May 27, 2019
The Government of Ontario announced in its April 2019 budget that Legal Aid Ontario would see a 30% cut in funding retroactive to April 1, 2019. This amounts to $133 million in the coming year and $164 million by 2021 and will hurt some of Ontario´s most vulnerable people while adding new costs...
Update on Retro Performance Pay
Tuesday, May 21, 2019
You will recall that when the Collective Agreement retroactive pay implementation was being finalized, retroactive adjustments to Performance Pay paid in previous years were not done. (...