Q: Who is covered by the pay agreement between the PSAC and Treasury Board?

A: Employees of the federal government who work in departments for which Treasury Board is the employer (Public Service Staff Relations Act, Part I) and who are or were classified as a CR, ST, DA-CON, EU, HS or LS since March 8, 1985. This includes indeterminate, term, casual and seasonal employees, as well as the estates of affected employees who have died.

Q: What am I owed?

A. The next two pages show the amounts owed year by year from 1985 to 1998 for each group and level. Please note the following:

The rate per year in the tables is the rate for the entire year.
Each year's figures include the additional 5 cents per hour for the HS group and 13 cents per hour for the CR, ST, EU, DA-CON and LS groups. These cents per hour payments represent compensation for indirect benefits.
These figures do not include the 1990 CR ($994) or ST ($1289) pay equity adjustments nor do they include the special pay adjustments negotiated in the last round of bargaining. The retroactive pay owed will be calculated on these figures, which are over and above any other pay equity or special pay adjustments already being paid.
All individuals covered by the agreement will receive an additional lump sum equal to 5% of the money owed to them for the period March 8, 1985 to March 31, 1994. This lump sum replaces actual recalculations of overtime, acting pay, etc. for that period. (Note, the end date was incorrectly reported as May 31, 1994 in pay equity bulletin no. 39.) Everyone will receive this payment whether or not they worked any overtime, had an acting assignment, etc. From April 1, 1994 to July 29, 1998, these items will be recalculated on an individual basis, at the new pay equity adjusted rates applicable each year.Former employees who received severance or separation benefits during the retroactive period will receive lump sum payments based on an agreed upon number of weeks. Information on the number of weeks is contained in pay equity bulletin 39. These lump sum payments are in addition to the retroactive pay and interest payments.
When salaries are finally adjusted on an ongoing basis, all pay equity adjustments, including the 1990 CR, EU and ST adjustments will be folded into salary. They will not appear as separate payments. The previous LS pay equity adjustments were folded into salaries during the last round of bargaining.

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Annual Pay Equity Adjustment

Classification	1985	1986	1987	1988	1989	1990	1991	1992	1993	1994	1995	1996	1997	1998

CR1	3128	3528	3695	3980	4013	4303	4618	4722	4949	4872	4875	4875	1379	399
CR2	2030	2390	2527	2776	2777	3068	3380	3483	3730	3642	3643	3653	1408	706
CR3	1279	1669	1752	1995	2020	2317	2535	2625	3003	2937	2938	2905	1564	1069
CR4	1158	1520	1694	1981	2030	2411	2938	3086	3237	3172	3177	3130	2036	1589
CR5	398	751	852	1204	1193	1539	2488	2615	2459	2382	2390	2357	1177	731
CR6	2030	2463	2601	3141	3199	3678	5006	5204	4778	4696	4705	4681	3805	3469
CR7	807	1185	1227	1823	1815	2293	5775	5917	3593	3443	3458	3458	2992	2763

DACON01	2097	2185	2676	2745	2949	3291	3357	3646	3850	3600	3603	3603	1441	0
DACON02	316	329	585	580	721	1062	1159	1342	1593	1333	1336	1336	247	0
DACON03	834	907	1321	1379	1620	2038	2148	2384	2647	2401	2403	2379	1024	120
DACON04	4077	4312	4855	5152	5619	6268	6715	7114	7111	6884	6890	6820	3068	383
DACON05	3165	3425	4003	4384	4751	4507	6315	6785	6501	6230	6238	6196	2930	594
DACON06	2188	2406	2933	3302	3578	4293	5748	6191	5339	5031	5042	5023	2392	570
DACON07	4229	4437	4885	5229	5449	6153	7071	7449	7278	6876	6881	6949	7304	7701
DACON08	3314	3466	3810	4088	4198	4812	5566	5875	5907	5440	5445	5555	5874	6304

HSHDO01	1443	1391	1897	2211	2205	2351	2232	2654	2160	2037	2180	2117	2686	2983
HSHDO02	1443	1391	1897	2211	2205	2351	2232	2654	2160	2037	2180	2117	2686	2983
HSHDO03	1443	1391	1897	2211	2205	2351	2232	2654	2160	2037	2180	2117	2686	2983
HSHDO04	1443	1391	1897	2211	2205	2351	2232	2654	2160	2037	2180	2117	2686	2983
HSHDO05	1443	1391	1897	2211	2205	2351	2232	2654	2160	2037	2180	2117	2686	2983
HSHDO06	1443	1391	1897	2211	2205	2351	2232	2654	2160	2037	2180	2117	2686	2983
HSHDO07	1443	1391	1897	2211	2205	2351	2232	2654	2160	2037	2180	2117	2686	2983
HSHDO08	1443	1391	1897	2211	2205	2351	2232	2654	2160	2037	2180	2117	2686	2983
HSHDO09	1443	1391	1897	2211	2205	2351	2232	2654	2160	2037	2180	2117	2686	2983
HSHDO10	1443	1391	1897	2211	2205	2351	2232	2654	2160	2037	2180	2117	2686	2983
HSPHS01	1443	1391	1897	2211	2205	2351	2232	2654	2160	2037	2180	2117	1442	1544
HSPHS02	1443	1391	1897	2211	2205	2351	2232	2654	2160	2037	2180	2117	1442	1544
HSPHS03	1443	1391	1897	2211	2205	2351	2232	2654	2160	2037	2180	2117	1442	1544
HSPHS04	1443	1391	1897	2211	2205	2351	2232	2654	2160	2037	2180	2117	1442	1544
HSPHS05	1443	1391	1897	2211	2205	2351	2232	2654	2160	2037	2180	2117	1442	1544
HSPHS06	1443	1391	1897	2211	2205	2351	2232	2654	2160	2037	2180	2117	1442	1544
HSPHS07	1443	1391	1897	2211	2205	2351	2232	2654	2160	2037	2180	2117	1442	1544
HSPHS08	1443	1391	1897	2211	2205	2351	2232	2654	2160	2037	2180	2117	1442	1544
HSPHS09	1443	1391	1897	2211	2205	2351	2232	2654	2160	2037	2180	2117	1442	1544
HSPHS10	1443	1391	1897	2211	2205	2351	2232	2654	2160	2037	2180	2117	1442	1544

LS01	4664	5029	5335	5897	6532	6696	6463	6898	6875	6933	6936	6995	2798	3121
LS02	1879	2180	2457	2887	3412	3476	3675	4103	3501	3557	3564	3677	103	435
LS03	4386	4716	5065	5343	5943	5950	5731	6061	6017	6040	6038	6272	2389	2757
LS04	4848	5068	5444	5768	6378	6450	6282	6566	6716	7472	7471	7686	1139	1361
LS05	5962	6248	6376	6799	7863	8078	8278	8425	9216	10164	10164	11340	5547	5369

STCOR01	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0
STCOR02	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0
STOCE01	2229	2311	2539	2806	2927	3406	3646	3871	4133	3965	3968	3968	1265	260
STOCE02	846	941	1353	1584	1697	2150	2439	2640	2907	2747	2750	2757	1544	1105
STOCE03	452	538	901	1133	1241	1702	1950	2177	2450	2279	2284	2253	1201	847

STSCY01	2151	2290	2719	3016	3202	3751	4020	4278	4546	4399	4403	4413	1751	675
STSCY02	1275	1394	1784	2074	2269	2752	3009	3250	3521	3378	3384	3338	1855	1304
STSCY03	0	0	0	0	0	372	627	816	1103	935	942	902	393	289
STSCY04	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0

STSTN01	2867	2960	3259	3546	3716	4293	4591	4835	5123	4981	4987	4987	2113	936
STSTN02	2144	2269	2676	2952	3102	3659	3928	4174	4464	4305	4310	4310	2367	1601

STTYP01	4414	4571	4883	5240	5478	6058	6336	6596	6860	6726	6729	6729	2160	323
STTYP02	3421	3548	3814	4128	4311	4836	5088	5327	5585	5427	5430	5430	1710	264

After all of the individual calculations are made, interest will be calculated on 90% of the total amount owed. It will be calculated up to the date the retroactive payments are made. This is simple interest which will be calculated in six month periods, as of March 31 and September 30 of each year at the following rates:

1985 - 11.25%; 1986 - 10.0%; 1987 - 7.75%; 1988 - 9.0%; 1989 - 10.5%; 1990 - 10.5%; 1991 - 10.75%; 1992 - 7.5%; 1993 - 6.0%; 1994 - 4.25%; 1995 - 7.50%; 1996 - 5.25%; 1997 - 5.25%; 1998 - 3.5%; 1999 - 4.0%

[Note: Due to the small numbers of affected individuals in the EU group, as a matter of privacy, information on the EU group rates is not being published but is available to current and former EU members by contacting the Alliance or their department.]

Please do not contact the union to find out what you are owed as an individual. The Alliance cannot calculate amounts owed to each current and former member. Only your present or former pay office has the necessary records to perform these calculations.

Q: How do I get the money I am owed?

A: Current employees: the government will automatically make the calculations. Treasury Board hopes to have the ongoing amounts reflected in salary cheques by February 2000 at the earliest. Cheques for the retroactivity should start being received in four to six months from now. Cheques for the interest owed will follow later in 2000 or in 2001.

Retired employees: the government will automatically calculate the retroactive payments owed and interest and will also adjust the monthly superannuation payments. These calculations will follow the cheques for current employees.

Former employees should make sure their last employing department has their current address. If the last employing department no longer exists, Treasury Board has a list of "dissolved organizations together with current contacts" which is available on their web site at: www.tbs-sct.gc.ca. You can find a link to this site on the Alliance's web site at www.psac-afpc.com. Information is also available from the Treasury Board Secretariat at (613) 952-2946. Staff at this number are able to provide general information about the agreement as well as contact numbers for the various departments.

NOTE: The PSAC cannot forward information about former employees to their respective departments, on their behalf. Individuals, or their estates, must contact the last employing department themselves.