Grievance Software for British Columbia
Sertus is built for Canadian labour relations — including the specifics of the BC Labour Relations Code and practice before the British Columbia Labour Relations Board.
BC labour relations in practice
British Columbia has one of the most distinctive labour relations regimes in Canada. The BC Labour Relations Code shapes certification, bargaining, and dispute resolution, and the British Columbia Labour Relations Board plays an active role in matters that do not belong in arbitration. Health, education, forestry, and the broader public sector all operate under collective agreements with their own timelines and conventions.
Sertus is designed to handle that structure. Each grievance is linked to the articles of the applicable collective agreement. Deadlines follow the agreement's own schedule rather than a generic template. Arbitration preparation is the default state, not an afterthought. The platform is built by the co-author of Canadian Labour Arbitration(Brown & Beatty), the reference text Canadian arbitrators cite, so the AI is tuned to the standards a BC arbitrator actually applies.
For public sector employers working with FIPPA obligations, Sertus runs in Canadian cloud regions and handles data with PIPEDA-aligned controls. Evidence stays in Canada. Audit logs are retained. Role-based permissions separate union staff, employer staff, and external counsel when they need to collaborate on a case.
British Columbia also has a distinctive sectoral bargaining tradition. Health-sector employers bargain through the Health Employers Association of BC and community social services through parallel associations, producing large master agreements that cover dozens of employers at once. The Hospital Employees Union and the BC Government and Service Employees’ Union represent major portions of the health and public-sector workforce, and the BC Nurses’ Union covers a concentrated nursing population. When a scheduling article or a vacation provision is disputed at one site, counsel regularly needs to know how the same language has been applied across the sector. Sertus treats that cross-reference as a built-in workflow rather than a manual exercise.
Forestry, ports, and the BC resource sector add another layer. These bargaining units tend to run on rotating shifts, seasonal schedules, and call-out provisions that generate a steady flow of grievances on overtime distribution, crew assignment, and layoff sequencing. Sertus lets union and employer teams see grievance volume by unit and issue type, so patterns — a particular clause that generates disproportionate volume, or a foreman whose decisions are repeatedly grieved — surface before they become a bargaining demand. Interest arbitration in essential services and the active role of the BC Labour Relations Board in matters outside arbitration mean the underlying case record has to be clean and complete, and Sertus is built to keep it that way.
What BC teams get out of Sertus
- Collective agreement parsing for English and French agreements, with natural-language search across articles.
- AI assessment of each grievance against the applicable collective agreement, surfacing strengths, risks, and likely arbitration posture.
- Deadline tracking aligned with the grievance procedure of the agreement itself — not a generic template.
- Evidence management with automatic summaries of uploaded documents and correspondence.
- Reporting for leadership: grievance volume, resolution rate, and time-to-resolve by bargaining unit and issue type.
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Last updated: April 2026
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