42. Employees are appointed by the Agency in accordance with the staffing plan it establishes.
Subject to the third paragraph, the Agency determines the standards and scales of remuneration, the employee benefits and the other conditions of employment of its employees, in accordance with the conditions defined by the Government.
The Agency negotiates and agrees to the clauses of a collective agreement between itself and an association of employees, in accordance with Chapter IV of the Act respecting the process of negotiation of the collective agreements in the public and parapublic sectors (chapter R-8.2).