The effect of the amendment is it removes the restriction that prohibits people against whom disciplinary action has been ordered by the tribunal from grieving that to a labour board or under their collective agreement.
The reason for the prohibition is a tribunal is ordering the discipline. These are not decisions being taken by the employer, and normally what you'd be talking about in a grievance process is the employee grieving a decision of the employer. In this case, you end up with the employee grieving the decision of the tribunal. That results in a duplication of proceedings, because the tribunal orders are subject to judicial review to the Federal Court of Appeal. A mechanism is already provided if somebody has a discipline order brought to bear against him or her as a result of the tribunal ordering the employer to take a disciplinary action. The recourse would be to seek judicial review of that tribunal's decision.