New rules set out how Ontario's CODE bargaining committee is structured, governed, and how it ratifies collective agreements

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A new regulation establishes the formal structure of the CODE Bargaining Committee, which represents school boards as employers during central collective bargaining under the School Boards Collective Bargaining Act. The committee will have 16 elected members drawn from chief executive officers of CODE-represented school boards, plus any Minister-appointed members and a non-voting executive director who acts as secretary. The regulation spells out how members are elected and replaced, how meetings are run (including quorum and voting rules), and how the committee exercises its powers by resolution. On ratification of central bargaining settlements, the committee must first approve a memorandum before a weighted vote of affected school board chief executive officers is held—abstentions and non-votes count as votes in favour. Financial rules require that employer-association fees be kept in a separate account and used only for collective bargaining functions. A transitional 'interim committee' applies until the committee itself, with Ministerial approval, fixes a date to move to the permanent structure, with initial membership reflecting current provincial supervisory appointments at several named school boards.

Who this affects
school boards represented by the CODE · chief executive officers of CODE-represented school boards · CODE executive director and staff · Ontario Minister of Education · provincially appointed supervisory officers at named school boards