BILL NO. 142

(as introduced)

1st Session, 60th General Assembly
Nova Scotia
56 Elizabeth II, 2007

Private Member's Bill

Civil Service Collective Bargaining Act
(amended)

Maureen MacDonald
Halifax Needham

First Reading: March 20, 2007

(Explanatory Note)

Second Reading:

Third Reading:

This Bill amends the Civil Service Collective Bargaining Act to provide that persons who are employed for two months or longer on a casual, temporary or seasonal employment basis are employees for the purpose of the Act, while maintaining an exclusion for persons who are appointed on a student summer employment basis.

1 Subsection 11(1) of Chapter 71 of the Revised Statutes, 1989, the Civil Service Collective Bargaining Act, is amended by

(a) striking out "twelve" in the second line of clause (c) and substituting "two";

(b) adding immediately after clause (c) the following clause:

(ca) appointed on a student summer employment basis;

(c) striking out "summer" in the first line of clause (d) and substituting "seasonal";

(d) striking out "six" in the third line of clause (d) and substituting "two".