11 h. ago How new early retirement buyouts will work for public servants

What we know so far about the early retirement incentives announced in Budget 2025.

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4 d. ago Public servants leaving the workforce should focus on knowledge transfer | Letters to the Editor

When cutting the public service are we losing fat or muscle? The plan to streamline the public service is appropriate.  But as is often observed, the impact of staff reductions in any organization depends just as much on the transfer and retention of organizational knowledge as on the physical headcount.  It’s not how many remain, […]

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4 d. ago Top soldier has second thoughts about recruiting public servants for reserves

Chief of the Defence Staff Gen. Jennie Carignan had faced public backlash and questions about her plan.

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7 d. ago Canadian military will rely on an army of public servants to boost its ranks by 300,000

Federal public servants would be trained to shoot guns, drive trucks and fly drones, according to a defence department directive.

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1 week ago Ottawa MP says 'transition plan' in works for public servants who lose jobs in National Capital Region

The Liberals won every riding in Ottawa-Gatineau after promising to "cap, not cut" the public service.

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1 week ago How will public service cuts impact city? Here's what Ottawa's mayor said

The public service will lose around 40,000 jobs from its peak in 2023-24, according to the federal budget tabled on Tuesday.

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1 week ago Liberal government wants to change arbitration rules for public servants

The changes to the Public Sector Labour Relations Act would alter the arbitration process for public service bargaining units.

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2 w. ago Is it fair that only some public servants can work from home full time?

A former public servant explains who can get exemptions to work from home.

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2 w. ago Union pushes DND to hire more public servants instead of relying on private contractors

The Union of National Defence Employees wants the Liberal government to use its Nov. 4 budget to "build up our trades" in the public service.

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2 w. ago Tom Digby: And Expecto Patronum! We found ourselves in a Harry Potter

Culture wars are not our usual fare at the Vancouver Park Board. So we did what practical public servants do. We found a middle path

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2 w. ago Social programs could be 'sunset' along with jobs of public servants who administer them: analysis

The Canadian Centre for Policy Alternatives estimates that 52 of 88 departments and agencies will let programs expire to help meet savings target.

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3 w. ago Michelle DiEmanuele: From mandate to mission — how Ontario’s public service delivers 

Deputy ministers — Ontario’s senior non-partisan public servants — play a critical role in translating government priorities into action

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3 w. ago Alberta government ending hybrid work policy for public servants

Alberta is ending its hybrid work policy allowing some staff to work from home two days a week, mandating all government employees return to the office full-time in 2026.

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4 w. ago Cuts will impact women and racialized public servants disproportionately, new analysis says

An estimated 59 per cent of the employees whose jobs will be cut will be women, according to a new analysis by the Canadian Centre for Policy Alternatives.

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