Table of contents
- Streamlining professional governance laws
- Modernizing Alberta’s electricity system
- Implementing red tape reduction
- Modernizing condominium laws
- Enabling energy rebates
- Providing Albertans extra job protection
- Diversifying Alberta’s insurance sector
- Reforming teacher profession discipline processes
- Enhancing sexual assault law education
- Innovating the finance sector
- Making trust laws more efficient
- Transforming continuing care
- Protecting the health of women and girls
- Strengthening public’s right to know
- Designating Alberta's official gemstone
- Protecting roadside workers
- Delivering certainty for public health rules
- Recognizing special days
- Implementing Budget 2022
- Recognizing the Platinum Jubilee
- Renaming Calgary constituency
- Putting students first
- Improving Alberta’s waste management
- Protecting and preserving Alberta’s outdoors
- Improving the affordable housing system
- Restoring tax accountability
- Upholding the value of artists to Alberta
- Strengthening infrastructure planning
- COVID-19 civil liability protection
- Modernizing post-secondary education
- Modernizing public health laws
- Empowering citizen initiatives
- Holding elected officials accountable
- Improving child care
- Establishing the Heroes' Fund
- Strengthening the financial sector
- Financing transportation projects
- Modernizing justice and policing
- Attracting job creating investment
- Improving public health care
- Restoring balance in Alberta’s workplaces
- Strengthening democracy in Alberta
- Making Alberta roads safer
- Strengthening mental health care
- Creating an Alberta Parole Board
- Supporting victims of crime and public safety
- Alberta Sovereignty within a United Canada Act
- Strengthening Alberta’s justice system
- Introducing the Alberta Firearms Act
- Protecting property rights
- Protecting survivors of human trafficking
- Modernizing Alberta's Police Act
- Preserving Canada's economic prosperity
- Protecting critical infrastructure
- Carbon tax repeal
- Job Creation Tax Cut
- Public sector wage arbitration deferral
- Alberta Senate Election Act
Status: Bill 9 received royal assent on June 28, 2019
Ministry responsible: Treasury Board and Finance
Overview
The Public Sector Wage Arbitration Deferral Act postponed wage reopener arbitration hearings until after October 31, 2019. This affected 24 collective agreements, covering about 180,000 public sector employees.
Postponing the hearings gave government more time to fully understand Alberta’s economic situation and consider advice from the MacKinnon “Blue Ribbon” Panel.
Key details
The act:
- postponed the start of arbitration hearings until after October 31, 2019
- temporarily suspended hearings that are already underway until October 31, 2019
Next steps
The act took effect on June 28, 2019.
News
- Public sector wage arbitration deferral: Minister Toews (June 13, 2019)
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