The Association of Justice Counsel (AJC) warns that the deep spending cuts announced in Budget 2025 risk undermining the very systems Canadians depend on to uphold fairness, accountability, and public safety.

Join the AJC for a webinar for its newest members on union membership, the collective agreement and benefits, and advocacy.

The Association of Justice Counsel (AJC) stands in solidarity with members of the BC General Employees’ Union (BCGEU) and the Professional Employees Association (PEA), who have begun job action following the expiry of their collective agreements and the breakdown of negotiations with the Government of British Columbia.

The AJC congratulates CUPE members at Air Canada and Air Canada Rouge who defied the federal government’s back-to-work order. Their tenacious and brave stand brought their employer to the bargaining table to end unpaid work.

On 30 May 2017, the JJD filed a policy grievance against the employer and the PPSC, having failed to comply with the commitment to provide “Superior” ratings at 20% of the total LP population within the PPSC.

As Covid-19 infections continue to rise across the country, provinces are imposing strict lockdowns and closures affecting parents with school age children.

It has now been more than three weeks since the US government was shut down, locking out almost 400,000 federal workers and forcing another 400,000 deemed "essential" to show up to work without pay.

On March 23, 2016, the AJC filed a policy grievance on account of eligible LPs being deprived of their incremental lockstep increases on account of receiving an "Unable to Assess" rating.

The judicial review of the decision by the Binding Conciliation Board we filed in October last year, proceeded yesterday morning.

As mentioned in previous communications, I, as your AJC President, co-chair the Subcommittee on Phoenix Damages. I am pleased to announce that the parties have come to a tentative agreement.

Late last week, a subcommittee of federal public service unions and employer representatives reached a tentative agreement to provide damages to public service workers in light of the ongoing Phoenix payroll debacle.

We have been advised that 20.6% of the PPSC population received "Exceeds" ratings and that the percentages will remain the same as last year for those already at the top of the range. This means 4.3% for "Meets" and 6.5% for "Exceeds".

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.

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.

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.