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    Labour Relations Committee

    Membership

    • Chair: Labour Relations Officer
    • President
    • Vice President
    • One (1) Executive member

    Roles and Responsibilities

    • Respond to all MRSA member inquiries of concern related to labour relations and human rights in the workplace.
    • Support the MRSA President in responding to labour relations needs of the MRSA.
    • Maintain and develop processes to ensure MRSA’s duty of fair representation is upheld.
    • Discuss, review and develop strategies to support the full actualization and enforcement of the collective agreement.
    • Provide representation as per the Collective Agreement and Alberta Labour Relations Code requirements in accordance with the MRSA representational model.
    • Ensure appropriate training for committee members, which may include attendance at labour relations and employment conferences.
    • Take updates and reporting from the Joint Occupational Health and Safety Committee and Classification Committee and support any needs of those representatives.
    • Provide support to any of the standing committees of the MRSA with regards to collective agreement enforcement, application and interpretation.
    • Maintain records of representational activities of the MRSA and to provide reports to the Executive.
    • Reports shall be provided in alignment with Alberta’s Personal Information Protection Act (PIPA) requirements and individual cases shall remain confidential to the committee.
    • The committee meets monthly, and on an ad hoc basis, as needed.

    Resources

    • The Committee shall develop a budget for expected annual expenditures, for approval of the Executive. If expenditures are in excess of budget, those shall require additional Executive approval.
    • Within the approved budget, the Committee will be able to purchase/commit to services in order to meet the stated purposes of the Committee mandate and responsibilities.
    • The Labour Relations Officer performs the majority of the work/responsibilities delineated above.
    • Executive committee members are advisory and when required provide direct representation to the membership.

    Reporting

    • The Chair provides regular updates to the Executive members of this committee, and on an as needed basis, for information, discussion and action.
    • The Chair provides regular updates to the Executive Board for information purposes.
    • The Chair provides bi-annual reports for the general membership for information purposes.
    • The Chair will create notes from regular committee meetings. These are held in the Committee Notes folder.

    Level of Authority

    Active Agent: The committee takes action; the Executive Board can later formally approve the action taken.

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