For Treasury Board and deputy ministers, a key piece is the Financial Administration Act, which actually sets out many deputy responsibilities relative to their employees. There is the Public Servants Disclosure Protection Act, which allows for the disclosure of wrongdoing and protection of employees who do that, a protection from reprisal, for example. The Canada Labour Code requires the government, as an employer, to provide for a safe and healthy workplace for employees.
Those are the three main pieces of legislation that I can think of.
The values and ethics code is a stand-alone instrument that is a condition of employment, subject to the various requirements of those laws, which applies to the whole public sector, for example. It's the kind of special instrument that's quite unique in that respect.
Then there are the harassment policy and directives that are subsidiary to the other legal authorities that I described above, but particularly the Financial Administration Act.
Other Treasury Board policies relating to our employees generally follow from those authorities, depending on the specific nature of the policy. So they do cascade down from the original legislation. The code is a bit of an exception because it's a unique instrument; then the rest of the policies have to derive from some legal instrument. Most of them—the FAA, the Canada Labour Code, and so on—would relate to the ones having to do with the area that you're investigating.