137.Where the employees integrated into the public service pursuant to an agreement under section 7 or pursuant to section 135 were represented by a certified association within the meaning of the Labour Code (chapter C‐27) or by a bargaining agent within the meaning of the Public Service Staff Relations Act (Revised Statutes of Canada, 1985, chapter P‐35), the Government, to facilitate the employees’ integration, may, on the conditions and to the extent it determines, recognize for a period it fixes, the certified association or bargaining agent as the sole representative of the employees for the interpretation or application of a collective agreement referred to in the second paragraph of this section or for the purposes of any measure pursuant to the second paragraph of section 135 or the second paragraph of section 136. The recognition may include provisions concerning the payment of union dues.
Those employees shall be governed by the collective agreements and other conditions of employment applicable to employees governed by the Public Service Act (chapter F‐3.1.1), subject to any rule, standard or policy established under the second paragraph of section 135 or the second paragraph of section 136 and to the provisions of the first paragraph of this section.