Program directory · Employment and Social Development Canada

Labour Relations

Department: Employment and Social Development Canada
Program code: BGP01 (HRSD)
Core responsibility: Working Conditions and Workplace Relations
In Departmental Plans: 2018-19 – 2026-27 · New since an earlier plan

What it does

The Labour Relations Program (LRP), which includes the Federal Mediation and Conciliation Service (FMCS), promotes cooperative labour relations between unions and employers in federally regulated workplaces. Federally regulated workplaces include: banking; telecommunications; broadcasting; air, interprovincial rail, road and pipeline transportation; shipping; uranium mining; grain handling; along with workplaces in the territories, Indigenous public administration and some Crown corporations. The FMCS helps employers and unions negotiate and renew collective agreements and manage relations after implementation. Other program activities include: mediation and conciliation assistance to parties to resolve collective bargaining disputes; dispute prevention skills training; facilitation services; grievance mediation; and others.

Source: the department's Program Inventory, via GC InfoBase.

History and lineage

First appears in GC InfoBase's actual spending by program in 2018-19. The data does not record when a program was created; it may be older than its first appearance here, which is limited by the sources (program spending starts in 2010-11, Departmental Plans in 2018-19).

Bars: spending by fiscal year (dark: actual; light: actual restated on the 2017-18 program structure; outlined: the latest plan's forecast; grey: related programs). Bands: each program in the lineage over the years it has data.

Program	Relation	Years with data	Actual spending over those years
Labour Relations	This program	2018-19 – 2028-29	$120M

No earlier or later program in the same department has a similar name.

Significant changes in scope and budget

Detected from the data: renames between plans, programs it appears to replace, merge with or split into (matched by name), year-over-year changes in spending of at least 25% and $5M, or in employees of at least 20% and 25 FTEs, linked budget measures, and results indicators added or dropped.

Year	What changed	Source
2019-20	Indicators added: Percentage of labour disputes settled under the Canada Labour Code (Part I) without work stoppages, where parties were assisted by Labour Program officers	Departmental Results Framework (GC InfoBase)
2019-20	Indicators dropped: Percentage of clients satisfied with the Federal Mediation and Conciliation Service’s contribution to the improvement of labour relations within federal workplaces	Departmental Results Framework (GC InfoBase)
2020-21	Indicators added: Number of dispute prevention activities delivered	Departmental Results Framework (GC InfoBase)
2020-21	Indicators dropped: Percentage of labour disputes settled under the Canada Labour Code (Part I) without work stoppages, where parties were assisted by Labour Program officers	Departmental Results Framework (GC InfoBase)
2021-22	Indicators added: Number of dispute prevention interventions delivered by the LRP	Departmental Results Framework (GC InfoBase)
2021-22	Indicators dropped: Number of dispute prevention activities delivered	Departmental Results Framework (GC InfoBase)

Success criteria

The program's indicators from its department's Departmental Results Framework: the target set in each year's plan, and the result reported the following year. Source: GC InfoBase.

Historical: targets against results

Number of dispute prevention interventions delivered by the LRP

Expected result: Employers and Unions make use of conciliation, mediation and dispute prevention services in fostering cooperative labour relations and negotiations of collective agreements.