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    (b) has the right to make a complaint under section 77.

Mobility - employees of Tribunal

(3) A person employed by the Tribunal under subsection 95(1) may participate in an advertised appointment process for which the organizational criterion established under section 34 is being an employee in the public service, as long as the person meets the other criteria, if any, established under that section.

Designation

(4) The Governor in Council may, on the recommendation of the Commission, designate any portion of the federal public administration for the purposes of subsection (2).

Revocation

(5) The Governor in Council may, on the recommendation of the Commission, revoke any designation under subsection (4).

Assessment methods

36. In making an appointment, the Commission may use any assessment method, such as a review of past performance and accomplishments, interviews and examinations, that it considers appropriate to determine whether a person meets the qualifications referred to in paragraph 30(2)(a) and subparagraph 30(2)(b)(i).

Language of examination

37. (1) An examination or interview, when conducted for the purpose of assessing qualifications referred to in paragraph 30(2)(a) and subparagraph 30(2)(b)(i), other than language proficiency, shall be conducted in English or French or both at the option of the candidate.

Testing for language skills

(2) An examination or interview, when conducted for the purpose of assessing the qualifications of the candidate in the knowledge and use of English or French or both, or of a third language, shall be conducted in that language or those languages.

Exceptions to merit

38. Paragraph 30(2)(b) does not apply in relation to any appointment made under subsection 15(6) (re-appointment on revocation by deputy head), section 40 (priorities - surplus employees), any of subsections 41(1) to (4) (other priorities) or section 73 (re-appointment on revocation by Commission) or 86 (re-appointment following Tribunal order), or under any regulations made pursuant to paragraph 22(2)(a).

Preferences, Priorities and Entitlements

Preference to veterans and Canadian citizens

39. (1) In an advertised external appointment process, subject to any priorities established under paragraph 22(2)(a) and by sections 40 and 41, any of the following who, in the Commission's opinion, meet the essential qualifications referred to in paragraph 30(2)(a) shall be appointed ahead of other candidates, in the following order:

    (a) a person who is in receipt of a pension by reason of war service, within the meaning of the schedule;

    (b) a veteran or a survivor of a veteran, within the meaning of the schedule; and

    (c) a Canadian citizen, within the meaning of the Citizenship Act, in any case where a person who is not a Canadian citizen is also a candidate.

Application of merit

(2) Where the Commission is satisfied that two or more candidates described in any of paragraphs (1)(a) to (c) meet the essential qualifications referred to in paragraph 30(2)(a), paragraph 30(2)(b) applies in the selection of a person from among the candidates described in that paragraph.

Priority - surplus employees

40. Notwithstanding section 41, after a deputy head informs an employee that the employee will be laid off pursuant to subsection 64(1) and before the lay-off becomes effective, the Commission may appoint the employee in priority to all other persons to another position under the deputy head's jurisdiction if the Commission is satisfied that the employee meets the essential qualifications referred to in paragraph 30(2)(a) and that it is in the best interests of the public service to make the appointment.

Priority - persons on leave

41. (1) When an employee on leave of absence is replaced, pursuant to the appointment or deployment of another person for an indeterminate period to the employee's position, priority for appointment shall be given over all other persons to

    (a) the employee on leave of absence, for the duration of the leave of absence and a further period of one year; or

    (b) if the employee on leave of absence returns to his or her position, the person who replaced that employee, for a period of one year after that employee returns to the position.

Priority - minister's staff

(2) Priority for appointment over all other persons shall be given to a person employed in the office of a minister, or in the office of a person holding the recognized position of Leader of the Opposition in the Senate or Leader of the Opposition in the House of Commons, for a period of one year after the person ceases to be so employed, if

    (a) the person was an employee immediately before becoming employed in that office; or

    (b) while employed in that office the person was found by the Commission, in an advertised external appointment process, to have met the essential qualifications for an appointment to the public service.

Priority - minister's senior staff

(3) Priority for appointment, to a position at a level at least equivalent to that of executive assistant to a deputy head, shall be given over all other persons to a person who for at least three years has been employed as the executive assistant, special assistant or private secretary in an office referred to in subsection (2) or in any of those capacities successively, for a period of one year after they cease to be employed.

Priority - persons laid off

(4) Priority for appointment over all other persons shall be given, during the period determined by the Commission, to a person who is laid off pursuant to subsection 64(1).

Essential qualifications

(5) The priority of a person referred to in any of subsections (1) to (4) applies with respect to any position if the Commission is satisfied that that person meets the essential qualifications referred to in paragraph 30(2)(a).

Order of priorities

(6) The order of appointment among persons described in subsections (1) to (4) shall follow the order of those subsections, and persons described in each of those subsections shall be appointed in the order determined by the Commission.

Failure to appoint person on leave

42. A person who is entitled under subsection 41(1) to be appointed to a position and who is not so appointed in the applicable period provided for in that subsection ceases to be an employee at the end of that period.

Non-applicati on of priority provisions

43. Notwithstanding sections 40 and 41 and any regulations made under paragraph 22(2)(a), if the Commission considers that the appointment of a person who has a right to be appointed in priority to other persons under any of those provisions will result in another person having a priority right, the Commission may decide not to apply that provision in that case.

Participation in advertised process - lay-offs

44. A person who is laid off under subsection 64(1) is entitled, during any period that the Commission determines for any case or class of cases, to participate in any advertised appointment process for which the person would have been eligible had the person not been laid off.

Non-applicati on to term employees

45. Section 40, subsection 41(4) and section 44 do not apply to a person whose employment was for a specified term at the time they were informed that they would be laid off.

Deemed lay-off

46. For the purposes of subsection 41(4) and section 44, a person who, while employed in the public service, does not accept an offer of employment made in the circumstances referred to in paragraph 12(1)(f) of the Financial Administration Act that is a reasonable job offer within the meaning of an agreement respecting work force adjustment or who accepts an offer of employment, made in such circumstances, that is not a reasonable job offer within the meaning of such an agreement, is deemed to be laid off.

Informal Discussion and Appointment

Informal discussion with employee

47. Where a person is informed by the Commission, at any stage of an internal appointment process, that the person has been eliminated from consideration for appointment, the Commission may, at that person's request, informally discuss its decision with that person.

Persons being considered for appointment

48. (1) After the assessment of candidates is completed in an internal appointment process, the Commission shall, in any manner that it determines, inform the following persons of the name of the person being considered for each appointment:

    (a) in the case of an advertised internal appointment process, the persons in the area of selection determined under section 34 who participated in that process; and

    (b) in the case of a non-advertised internal appointment process, the persons in the area of selection determined under section 34.

Waiting period

(2) For the purposes of internal appointment processes, the Commission shall fix a period, beginning when the persons are informed under subsection (1), during which appointments or proposals for appointment may not be made.

Appointment or proposed appointment

(3) Following the period referred to in subsection (2), the Commission may appoint a person or propose a person for appointment, whether or not that person is the one previously considered, and the Commission shall so inform the persons who were advised under subsection (1).

Finality of appointments

49. The Commission's decision to appoint a person or to propose a person for appointment is final and is not subject to appeal or review except in accordance with this Act.

Casual Employment

Appointment

50. (1) The Commission may appoint any person as a casual worker to that part of the public service to which the Commission has exclusive authority to make appointments.

Maximum period

(2) The period of employment of a casual worker may not exceed 90 working days in one calendar year in any particular department or other organization.

Application of Act

(3) The provisions of this Act, other than this section, do not apply to casual workers.

Ineligibility

(4) A casual worker is not eligible to be considered for appointment in any internal appointment process.

Term appointments

(5) This section does not affect the Commission's authority to appoint a person to or from within the public service, other than on a casual basis, for a specified term of ninety working days or less.

PART 3

DEPLOYMENTS

Authority of deputy heads to deploy

51. (1) Except as provided in this or any other Act, a deputy head may deploy employees to or within the deputy head's organization.

Deployment from separate agencies

(2) Except as provided in this or any other Act, a deputy head may deploy to the deputy head's organization persons who are employed in a separate agency to which the Commission does not have the exclusive authority to make appointments if the Commission has, after reviewing the staffing program of the separate agency at the agency's request, approved deployments from it.

Deployment within or between groups

(3) Subject to subsection (4), a deployment may be made within an occupational group or, unless excluded by regulations under paragraph 26(1)(a), between occupational groups.

Treasury Board directives and regulations

(4) A deployment to or within an organization named in Schedule I or IV to the Financial Administration Act shall be made in the manner directed by the Treasury Board and in accordance with any regulations of the Treasury Board.

Employment status preserved

(5) The deployment of a person may not

    (a) constitute a promotion, within the meaning of regulations of the Treasury Board, in the case of an organization named in Schedule I or IV to the Financial Administration Act, or as determined by the separate agency, in the case of a separate agency to which the Commission has the exclusive authority to make appointments; or

    (b) change a person's period of employment from a specified term to indeterminate.

Consent to deployment

(6) No person may be deployed without his or her consent unless

    (a) agreement to being deployed is a condition of employment of the person's current position; or

    (b) the deputy head of the organization in which the person is employed finds, after investigation, that the person has harrassed another person in the course of his or her employment and the deployment is made within the same organization.

Previous position

52. On deployment, a person ceases to be the incumbent of the position to which he or she had previously been appointed or deployed.

Deployment not an appointment

53. (1) A deployment is not an appointment within the meaning of this Act.

Exceptions to priority rights

(2) A deputy head may deploy a person without regard to any other person's right to be appointed under subsections 41(1) to (4) or any regulations made pursuant to paragraph 22(2)(a).

PART 4

EMPLOYMENT

Oath or affirmation

54. A person appointed or deployed from outside that part of the public service to which the Commission has exclusive authority to make appointments shall take and subscribe an oath or solemn affirmation in the following form:

I, ...................., swear (or solemnly affirm) that I will faithfully and honestly fulfil the duties that devolve on me by reason of my employment in the public service of Canada and that I will not, without due authority, disclose or make known any matter that comes to my knowledge by reason of such employment.

Effective date of appointment or deployment

55. The appointment or deployment of a person from outside that part of the public service to which the Commission has exclusive authority to make appointments takes effect on the later of the date that is agreed to in writing by the deputy head and that person and the date on which the person takes and subscribes the oath or solemn affirmation set out in section 54.

Effective date of appointment

56. (1) The appointment of a person from within that part of the public service to which the Commission has exclusive authority to make appointments takes effect on the date agreed to in writing by that person and the deputy head, regardless of the date of their agreement.

Effective date of deployment

(2) The deployment of a person from within that part of the public service to which the Commission has exclusive authority to make appointments takes effect

    (a) on the date agreed to in writing by that person and the deputy head, regardless of the date of their agreement; or

    (b) if the person's consent to the deployment is not required, on the date fixed by the deputy head.

Indeterminate employment

57. Subject to this Act, any other Act and regulations made under this or any other Act, the period of an employee's employment is indeterminate unless the deputy head has specified a term of employment.

Term appointment or deployment

58. (1) Subject to section 59, an employee whose appointment or deployment is for a fixed term ceases to be an employee at the expiration of that term, or of any extension made under subsection (2).

Extension by deputy head

(2) A deputy head may extend an employee's term of employment, and such an extension does not constitute an appointment or a deployment or entitle any person to make a complaint under section 77.

Conversion to indeterminate

59. (1) Unless the employee requests otherwise of the deputy head, the period of employment of an employee who is employed for a specified term as a result of an appointment or deployment is converted to indeterminate in the position they occupy at the end of the cumulative period of employment specified by the employer in circumstances prescribed by the employer.

Not an appointment

(2) The conversion of an employee's term of employment under subsection (1) does not constitute an appointment or a deployment or entitle any person to make a complaint under section 77.

Rate of pay on appointment

60. The rate of pay on appointment to a position shall be determined by the employer within the scale of rates of pay for that position or for positions of the same occupational nature and level as that position.

Probationary period

61. (1) A person appointed from outside the public service is on probation for a period

    (a) established by regulations of the Treasury Board in respect of the class of employees of which that person is a member, in the case of an organization named in Schedule I or IV to the Financial Administration Act; or

    (b) determined by a separate agency in respect of the class of employees of which that person is a member, in the case of an organization that is a separate agency to which the Commission has exclusive authority to make appointments.

Effect of appointment or deployment

(2) A period established pursuant to subsection (1) is not terminated by any appointment or deployment made during that period.

Termination of employment

62. (1) While an employee is on probation, the deputy head of the organization may notify the employee that his or her employment will be terminated at the end of

    (a) the notice period established by regulations of the Treasury Board in respect of the class of employees of which that employee is a member, in the case of an organization named in Schedule I or IV to the Financial Administration Act, or