Marginal note:Salaries

15. The new collective agreement is deemed to provide for the following increases to salaries:

• (a) effective February 1, 2011, salaries in effect as of January 31, 2011 are increased by 1.75%;

• (b) effective February 1, 2012, salaries in effect as of January 31, 2012 are increased by 1.5%;

• (c) effective February 1, 2013, salaries in effect as of January 31, 2013 are increased by 2%; and

• (d) effective February 1, 2014, salaries in effect as of January 31, 2014 are increased by 2%.

Marginal note:Amendments

16. Nothing in this Act is to be construed so as to limit or restrict the rights of the parties to agree to amend any provision of the new collective agreement, other than its term as provided for in subsection 14(1) or the salary increases referred to in section 15, and to give effect to the amendment.

COSTS

Marginal note:Costs

17. All costs incurred by Her Majesty in right of Canada relating to the appointment of the arbitrator and the performance of the arbitrator’s duties under this Act are debts due to Her Majesty in right of Canada and may be recovered as such, in equal parts from the employer and the union, in any court of competent jurisdiction.

ENFORCEMENT

Marginal note:Individuals

• 18. (1) An individual who contravenes any provision of this Act is guilty of an offence punishable on summary conviction and is liable, for each day or part of a day during which the offence continues, to a fine of

  • (a) not more than $50,000 if the individual was acting in the capacity of an officer or representative of the employer or the union when the offence was committed; or

  • (b) not more than $1,000 in any other case.

• Marginal note:Employer or union

  (2) If the employer or the union contravenes any provision of this Act, it is guilty of an offence punishable on summary conviction and is liable, for each day or part of a day during which the offence continues, to a fine of not more than $100,000.

Marginal note:No imprisonment

19. Despite subsection 787(2) of the Criminal Code, no term of imprisonment is to be imposed in default of payment of a fine that is imposed under section 18.

Marginal note:Recovery of fines

20. If a person is convicted of an offence under section 18 and the fine that is imposed is not paid when required, the prosecutor may, by filing the conviction, enter as a judgment the amount of the fine and costs, if any, in a superior court of the province in which the trial was held, and the judgment is enforceable against the person in the same manner as if it were a judgment rendered against the person in that court in civil proceedings.

Marginal note:Presumption

21. For the purposes of this Act, the union is deemed to be a person.

COMING INTO FORCE

Marginal note:Coming into force

22. This Act comes into force on the expiry of the twenty-fourth hour after the time at which it is assented to.