Members

Guy Giguère, Chairperson and Chief Executive Officer

A seasoned adjudicator and mediator with over 25 years of experience in the federal public service of Canada, Guy Giguère was appointed Chairperson of the Public Service Staffing Tribunal in March 2005. He was reappointed subsequently and his term ends March 29, 2015. Mr. Giguère was first a member of the Public Service Staff Relations Board from 1998 to 2000 and became Deputy Chairperson of the Board in 2001. Mr. Giguère began his public service career in 1983 with Employment and Immigration Canada where he provided training and advice on human rights and access to information legislation. He later worked with the Office of the Privacy Commissioner, the Department of Justice and the Privy Council Office. Born in St-Jérôme, Québec, Mr. Giguère obtained a civil law degree (LL.L) from the Université de Montréal and has been a member of the Quebec Bar since 1978. Mr. Giguère is a frequent speaker on mediation and arbitration and trains new members of federal administrative tribunals on the conduct of a hearing. He is also President of the Council of Canadian Administrative Tribunals.

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John A. Mooney, Vice-Chairperson

John A. Mooney was appointed Vice-Chairperson of the Public Service Staffing Tribunal in September 2009. Mr. Mooney holds a BA and License in Civil Law (LL.L) from the University of Ottawa and has extensive experience in administrative tribunals both as an adjudicator and manager. His prior experience includes working as a legal analyst for the Canadian Union of Public Employees; legal counsel for the Chambre de commerce du Québec, counsel for pension applicants before the Canadian Pension Commission and senior legal officer for the International Civil Service Commission of the United Nations. From 1992 to 1996, he was Chairperson of the Public Service Commission (PSC) Appeal Board. As part of the Privy Council Task Force on Modernizing Human Resources Management from 2001 to 2003, he helped draft the new Public Service Employment Act (PSEA). After the PSEA came into force, Mr. Mooney became the PSC Director of Regulations and Legislation where he managed the development of policies and regulations needed to implement the PSEA. In August, 2007, he was appointed as a full-time member of the Public Service Labour Relations Board.

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Joanne Archibald, Member

Joanne Archibald was appointed to the Public Service Staffing Tribunal as a permanent full-time member on March 1, 2010. Having obtained a Bachelor of Laws (LL.B) from the University of Calgary, Ms. Archibald is an active member of the Law Society of Alberta. She began her study of mediation in 1993 and is a Registered Practitioner in Dispute Resolution with the Canadian International Institute of Applied Negotiation. Ms. Archibald has served as a mediator both within the public service and with the Provincial Court of Alberta. Well versed in administrative law, Ms. Archibald conducted quasi-judicial hearings pursuant to the Public Service Employment Act from 1991 until her appointment to the Tribunal.

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Merri Beattie, Member

Merri Beattie is an experienced human resources professional with particular expertise in labour relations and staffing. Ms. Beattie began her public service career with Supply and Services Canada and has held positions in management since 1999. Ms. Beattie served on the Privy Council’s Task Force on Modernizing Human Resources Management created in April 2001 to draft a new institutional and legislative framework for human resources management in the public service. Following the adoption of the Public Service Modernization Act (PSMA), Ms. Beattie participated in the planning of PSMA implementation across government departments and agencies. In January 2004, Ms. Beattie was named Director of Human Resources Modernization with Public Works and Government Services Canada. In this capacity, she led the design and implementation of the department’s human resources policy frameworks and systems, including its response to the new Act. Ms. Beattie was first appointed as a permanent full-time member of the Public Service Staffing Tribunal in November 2005 and was reappointed in 2013 for a two-year term till March 29, 2015.

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Lyette Babin-MacKay, Member

Lyette Babin-MacKay was appointed as a permanent full-time member of the Public Service Staffing Tribunal in July 2009. Ms. Babin-MacKay has over 26 years of experience in human resources, labour relations and staffing; having joined the federal public service of Canada in 1983, she served with Employment and Immigration Canada, Agriculture Canada and National Defence and was appointed to the Professional Institute of the Public Service of Canada in 1996. At the Institute, in addition to providing representation to members regarding grievances, complaints, staffing appeals and adjudication, she was an active member of several National Joint Council Committees and of the Public Service Commission Advisory Council. In 2004 and 2005, she was a member of working groups established by the Deputy Ministers’ Sub-Committees on Staffing and Staffing Recourse and on Labour Relations and Dispute Resolution in order to assist departments and agencies in the implementation of the Public Service Employment Act and the Public Service Labour Relations Act. In 2007, she returned to the federal public service as Senior Policy Analyst with the Treasury Board Secretariat of Canada. Ms Babin-MacKay holds an Honours BA in History from the University of Ottawa.

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Nathalie Daigle, Member

Nathalie Daigle is from Edmundston, New Brunswick. She was appointed as a permanent full-time member of the Public Service Staffing Tribunal in December 2012. Ms. Daigle began her career as legal counsel for the Information Commissioner of Canada in 1996 and later worked as legal counsel for the Privacy Commissioner of Canada, the Department of Justice, Correctional Service Canada and the Courts Administration Service. Ms. Daigle has developed, over the years, an expertise in administrative law. She obtained her LL.B. from the University of Ottawa in 1994 and was called to the Bar in 1996, after completing her articling at the Federal Court of Appeal. She is a member of the Law Society of Upper Canada.

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Ken Gibson, Temporary Member

Ken Gibson was appointed as a temporary member of the Public Service Staffing Tribunal in November 2005. Mr. Gibson began his career as a researcher with the Science Council of Canada and later worked at the Professional Institute of the Public Service of Canada as both chief research officer and negotiator. From 1985 to 2000, he held a number of senior human resources management positions at the National Research Council, including Director of Employee Relations. Mr. Gibson has spent the last five years working as a human resources consultant with expertise in HR strategy, policy and program development, project management, labour relations and change management. Mr. Gibson holds an Honours BA in Commerce with specialization in economics and industrial relations.

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Maurice Gohier, Temporary Member

Maurice Gohier began his career in the federal public service as a Staff Relations Officer with Veterans Affairs Canada in 1984. From there, Mr. Gohier joined Fisheries and Oceans Canada as its Chief, Staff Relations and Administration until 1990 when he moved to Training and Development Canada as a Labour Relations Instructor. In 1996, following assignments at the RCMP External Review Committee and the Treasury Board Grievance Adjudications Section, Mr. Gohier joined the Public Service Commission (PSC) Recourse Branch where he first worked as an Investigator and later as Chairperson of the PSC Appeal Board. Mr. Gohier also worked in the PSC Investigation Branch where he acquired management experience as Assistant Director of Operations and Director of the Jurisdiction and Case Management Directorate. During the transition years from the former to the new Public Service Employment Act, Mr. Gohier worked as Recourse Manager and Coach and was responsible for the training of newly hired PSC Investigators. Mr. Gohier holds a Bachelor’s degree both in Business Administration and Education from the University of Ottawa. He was appointed as a permanent full-time member of the Public Service Staffing Tribunal in February 2010. Maurice Gohier was appointed as a temporary member of the Public Service Staffing Tribunal since May 31, 2012.

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Eugene Williams, Temporary Member

Following his 1976 call to the bar, Eugene Williams joined the Bureau of Competition Policy and remained there for 4 years. In 1980 he became a prosecutor with the federal Department of Justice in Ottawa and had carriage of tax, competition, drugs and regulatory prosecutions until 1990. Between 1990 and 1998 he participated in section 696 Criminal Code reviews, (formerly s. 690) and was involved in the development of the Criminal Conviction Review Group and become its first coordinator. He was appointed Queen’s Counsel in 1993. In 1998, he rejoined the Federal Prosecution Service (FPS) as the Director of the FPS Ottawa-Gatineau office. In January 2006 Eugene Williams, Q.C. was appointed the IMET coordinator in the Office of the Director of Public Prosecutions. (On December 12, 2006, the Office of the Director of Public Prosecutions was created by the Federal Accountability Act and assumed responsibility for the activities of the Federal Prosecution Service of the Department of Justice.) He remained in that position until he retired from the Public Service in October 2010.

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Archie Zariski, Temporary Member

Archie Zariski practiced law, including labour relations matters in Edmonton, for 15 years following his admission to the Alberta Bar. In 1988 he retired from practice to complete a Masters in Law degree from Osgoode Hall Law School where he presented a thesis on law and economics in dispute resolution. Archie then took up appointment as a member of the Faculty of Law of Murdoch University in Perth Australia. At Murdoch he designed and taught courses in dispute resolution, negotiation, and mediation as well as becoming trained and nationally accredited as a mediator. Since returning to Canada he has joined Athabasca University as an Associate Professor of Legal Studies with research interests in mediation and judicial dispute resolution. Archie continues to lead mediator training courses in Australia and is a member of the Institute of Arbitrators and Mediators Australia, ADR Institute of Canada, and the ADR Institute of Alberta. Archie was appointed a temporary member of the Tribunal in October 2012.