Renaud Paquet

Vice-Chairperson

Renaud Paquet possesses wide-ranging labour relations experience as a practitioner, a trainer and a third party in the federal public service, municipal government and the private sector. Mr. Paquet holds a Ph.D. in Industrial Relations from the Université de Montréal and a Master's degree in the same discipline from the Université du Québec en Outaouais. He also pursued post-doctoral studies at the New York State School of Industrial Relations at Cornell University in Ithaca, New York.

Most recently, Mr. Paquet was a professor at the Université du Québec en Outaouais in Gatineau, Quebec. He began his career at the university in June 1993, where he taught in the fields of collective bargaining, applying collective agreements, labour relations in the public sector and statistical analysis. Over the years, he published a large number of papers and numerous books on diverse topics, particularly labour relations, conflict management and collective bargaining. He also participated in many commissions and work groups, such as the Advisory Committee on Labour Management Relations in the Federal Public Service (the Fryer Committee). He has received numerous awards for teaching and research throughout his academic career.

Since 2002, Mr. Paquet has acted as an arbitrator under the Canada Labour Code. Between 1975 and 1991, before embarking on his academic career, he held a variety of positions in the federal public service. From 1982 to 1989, he was National President of the Canada Employment and Immigration Union and he was a member of the National Board of Directors of the Public Service Alliance of Canada.

Mr. Paquet brings to the Board solid academic training, wide-ranging experience in labour relations and a deep knowledge of the public sector.

Mr. Paquet was appointed as a full-time member of the Public Service Labour Relations Board on March 3, 2008 for a period of five years. He was appointed as a Vice-Chairperson of the Public Service Labour Relations Board on March 3, 2011 for a period of five years.