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PSAC files policy grievance regarding transfer of PSHCP, impacts on plan members

Sadie Janes — Thu, 18 Apr 2024 13:00:04 +0000

The Public Service Alliance of Canada recently filed a policy grievance against the Treasury Board for its management of the transfer of the Public Service Health Care Plan to Canada Life Assurance Co., which has impacted tens of thousands of federal public service workers covered under the plan. In 2023, the federal government implemented two […]

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20% of Canadian employees worked mostly from home at the end of 2023: Stats Can

Sadie Janes — Mon, 05 Feb 2024 14:00:23 +0000

The percentage of Canadians working most of their hours from home continued to decline in November 2023 to 20 per cent, from 40 per cent in April 2020 and 30 per cent in January 2022, according to a new report by Statistics Canada. It found while women were more likely than men to work exclusively […]

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UTE, CRA tentative agreement includes remote work protections, improved vacation

Sadie Janes — Fri, 05 May 2023 19:00:56 +0000

The Union of Taxation Employees and the Canada Revenue Agency have reached a tentative agreement that includes new protections around remote work and improved vacation. The tentative agreement, which ends a strike lasting more than two weeks involving 35,000 workers, has some of the same updates that were reached by the Public Service Alliance of Canada […]

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PSAC, government tentative agreement includes new protections around remote work, wage increases

Jennifer Paterson — Mon, 01 May 2023 19:00:44 +0000

The Public Service Alliance of Canada and the federal government have reached a tentative agreement for more than 120,000 workers, which includes new protections around remote work and wage increases. The tentative agreement, which ends a two-week strike, includes negotiated language that requires managers to assess remote work requests individually — not by group — and […]

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Federal workers striking over remote working, wages

bwolfe — Wed, 19 Apr 2023 13:00:24 +0000

Roughly 155,000 federal employees represented by the Public Service Alliance of Canada are striking over remote working arrangements and wages. The union is seeking to maintain remote working arrangements for employees, noting the working arrangement has become a part of everyday life for many workers. “Our experience during [the coronavirus] pandemic has shown that public […]

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