2025 WORKSHOPS

Contract Language And Interpretation

DESCRIPTION

This workshop is recommended for people leaders and human resources or labour relations practitioners.

During this workshop, participants will learn contract language and interpretation basics, including understanding the collective agreement, key steps to interpretation, knowledge of past practice, and how it applies in day-to-day practice.

WORKSHOP GOAL

Participants will learn the basics of contract language and the concepts of interpretation.

LEARNING OUTCOMES

By the end of the workshop, participants will be able to:

  • Describe key terms and principles for contract interpretation.
  • Explain and apply the meaning and purpose behind:
    • Language
    • Bargaining History
    • Past Practice
    • Law
    • Analysis and Summary
  • Demonstrate how to interpret and apply collective agreement language in post-secondary workplaces.

Format: Online

Date: TBD

Location: Zoom

Time: 9:00 am – noon pm PST

Cost: Included in PSEA Membership

Facilitator(s): TBD

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Twyla Hurley

Twyla is PSEA’s Executive Director of Training. She is currently responsible for creating and implementing learning and development opportunities services for our members. Twyla has over 25 years of leadership, labour relations and consulting experience in the public and private sectors. She has extensive experience in preparing bargaining strategies and acting as a spokesperson for the employer. Twyla holds a Bachelor of Liberal Arts and Sciences, a Bachelor of Education, and a Master of Business Administration.

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Chris Rawson

Chris is a senior labour relations and human resources professional with over 35 years of experience in both public and private sector settings providing strategic direction, achieving organizational objectives, and negotiating collective agreements. She has unique experience representing employers and unionized employees and acting as a negotiator on a sectoral basis for PSEA.

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Linda Heska

Linda is a consultant, human resources professional, and a labour relations specialist. Linda has over thirty years of H.R. experience with twenty-plus years of leadership experience, primarily in unionized environments within the public sector.

A particular area of Linda’s expertise is grievance management, collective bargaining and labour management relations.

Linda holds a Master of Arts in Leadership from Royal Roads University and a Management Certificate, maj. Human Resources, from the British Columbia Institute of Technology.

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