ABSTRACT
On March 13, 1967, employer-employee relations in the Canadian Federal Public Service entered a new era. The grievance and adjudication procedures governing employees working for the Canadian federal government are incorporated in two basic documents: the PSSR Act and the Regulations and Rules of Procedure issued by the Public Service Staff Relations Board or the PSSRB. The Board is responsible for the administration of the PSSR Act. In the private sector the final step for unresolved grievances usually is final and binding arbitration. The Canadian statute distinguishes between the rights of the individual employee and the rights and interest of all the members of the bargaining unit. The machinery for enforcement of adjudication decisions seems to contain a strong dose of the force of public opinion. Adjudication is an important tool for resolving disputes that cannot be settled satisfactorily through joint meetings of labor and management representatives at the various levels of the grievance machinery.
