The Treasury Board of Canada Secretariat (TBS) says it does not know how many federal employees holding membership with one of the country’s largest unions work from home. “With regard to the government’s remote work policy, the information is not systematically tracked in a centralized database,” wrote the Board in a submission to the Senate…
Treasury Board Says ‘Not Possible’ to Know How Many Federal Employees With PSAC Membership Work From Home
Federal Public Servants Can Claim $75K for Sex Change Under New Health Benefits as of July 1
Federal employees will be able to claim up to $75,000 for sex-change surgery as of July 1, as part of a new health benefit plan. Any public service employee who wants to take advantage of the funds can claim the benefit to put toward “certain gender affirming procedures not covered by provincial/territorial health plans to…
Treasury Board Officials Warned of Legal Action Over Vaccine Mandates
An advocacy group representing federal and federally-regulated employees is warning senior officials at Canada’s Treasury Board that Ottawa’s COVID-19 vaccine mandates unjustifiably violate their clients’ human rights and may trigger legal action. On Jan. 26, lawyers for Feds For Freedom, a not-for-profit advocacy organization for public servants, issued a ‘cease and desist’ letter to several…
Biden Admin Increases Minimum Wage for Federal Employees to $15 an Hour
The Biden administration has moved to increase the minimum wage for all federal employees to $15 an hour, according to a Jan. 21 release from the Office of Personnel Management (OPM). The change will boost pay for 67,000 of the total 2.2 million federal employees. Most of those impacted work for the Department of Defense (DOD)….
Biden’s COVID-19 Vaccine Mandate for Federal Workers Blocked Nationwide
President Joe Biden’s COVID-19 vaccine mandate for federal employees was blocked on Friday by a federal judge. Biden does not have the authority to impose such a mandate, U.S. District Judge Jeffrey Brown wrote in a 20-page ruling obtained by The Epoch Times. Federal law says the president “may prescribe regulations for the conduct of…
Thousands of Intelligence Personnel Refusing Vaccine Potentially Face Dismissal: GOP Lawmaker
A GOP lawmaker has raised concerns over the potential dismissal of unvaccinated intelligence employees if they should fail to comply with the Biden administration’s COVID-19 vaccination deadline for civilian workers later this month. Rep. Chris Stewart (R-Utah) said on Friday that COVID-19 vaccination rates are different in all the 18-agency intelligence communities in the United States….
Managers Shouldn’t Decide If Employee Vaccine Views Are Valid: Federal Unions
OTTAWA—Friday is the deadline for employees in the core federal public service to declare their COVID−19 vaccination status, but unions say there are still many questions about how requests for accommodations will be handled. The Treasury Board of Canada Secretariat says 240,000 employees have filed their attestations of their vaccine status to the government, out…
COVID 19 Vaccine to Be Mandatory for Federal Employees
Ottawa is requiring that federal employees be vaccinated against COVID-19. Dominic LeBlanc, president of the Privy Council, says the government expects employers in federally regulated industries to do the same. There are close to half a million people who work directly for the federal government, a Crown corporation, the military or the RCMP. Nearly a…
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