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Leave Time Reminder and CSA Consultation Team 2024 Annual Report

Read recent updates from your Canadian Space Agency (CSA) Consultation Team.

Your Canadian Space Agency (CSA) Consultation Team would like to share two updates:

  1. A reminder that leave time expires on March 31
  2. A copy of our 2024 annual report summarizing your union delegates’ work this past year

Leave time

Your collective agreement provides paid time off that is renewed each year and is non-transferable, which means it cannot be carried over into the next year.

This leave time includes:

  • Personal leave for a total of 15 hours per year. These hours can be taken in blocks of 7.5 hours or 3.75 hours, depending on the need
  • Leave for family obligations for a total of 37.5 hours per year. These hours can be used for:
  • family member appointments 
  • service closures (school and daycare)
  • care of a family member
  • adoption
  • school activities
  • visiting a family member who has a terminal illness and is at the end of life

15 of the 37.5 hours may be used to attend an appointment with a legal advisor or paralegal for non-employment matters or with a financial advisor or other type of professional representative

If possible, it is important to notify your supervisor before taking time off.

2024 Annual Report

In the last year, your CSA steward has participated in the following:

  • Management-union meetings (January, June and December) 
  • Workplace Health and Safety Committee 
  • Occupational Health and Safety Steering Committee (4 annual meetings)
  • Meetings on office presence over 3 days (4 meetings – summer 2024)
  • Meetings on various issues such as office space, adaptation measures, teleworking, scientific integrity, closure of operations at the David Florida Laboratory, etc.
  • Consultation Committee (PIPSC – 4 annual meetings)
  • Advisory Committee (PIPSC – 6 annual meetings)
  • Quebec Regional Council (PIPSC – 2 days once a year)
  • Steward Council (PIPSC – 2 days once a year) 
  • Annual General Meeting (PIPSC – 2 days once a year)
  • Meeting of the Montérégie Branch (4 meetings per year, in the evening)
  • General assemblies of different groups

We organized the following with members:

  • meeting for new members
  • member support meeting within the framework of reclassification
  • annual meeting for the Montérégie Engineers Sub-Group

Other activities:

  • representing and advising members on work-related issues
  • presenting grievances
  • coordinating activities with other unions and our labour relations officer

 

Get involved

Please contact us at Pouimet@pipsc.ca  if you have:

  • topics that you would like us to bring to our meetings with management
  • questions related to your working conditions or a difficult situation at work 
  • an interest in participating in your union's activities

You can reach out to a member of the CSA union representatives team: 

  • Philippe Ouimet
  • Jonathan Lajoie
  • Vahid Raissi Dehkordi
  • Giovanni Giolti
  • Serey-Pheak Sea
  • Corinne Bourgault-Brunelle (Starting in May 2025)

 

Other employees involved in PIPSC activities who we encourage you to connect with:

  • Nathaniel Cziranka-Crooks (NR Group National Executive Members)
  • Louis-Paul Bédard (NR Montérégie Sub-Group Treasurer)
  • Pierre Langlois (NR Montérégie Sub-Group outgoing treasurer )
  • Hany Fawzy (NR Montérégie Sub-Group VP)
Published on 18 March 2025