Canadian Human Rights Commission discriminated against its own workers
A central government agency has found discrimination against workers within a Canadian institution specifically designed to root it out.
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Feds say they'll try to improve access-to-info amid calls for reforms
The federal government says departments will focus on making the access-to-information system work better amid calls for fundamental changes to the transparency law.
Ottawa mayor asks feds to bring workers back downtown to save local businesses
The mayor of Canada's capital city is urging the federal government to send its workers back to their downtown offices to bolster flagging local businesses.
Most minorities lose out when applying for civil service jobs: audit
A new report says Black Canadians and people from most other minority groups tend to disproportionately lose out on federal civil service jobs they apply for compared with other Canadians.
Federal security-screening measures go too far: privacy watchdog
The federal privacy watchdog is pressing for changes to security screening procedures for public servants.
Lost civil servant productivity due to COVID-19 could cost more than $600 million
The federal government has lost at least $439 million so far this year in productivity through a policy that allows civil servants to stay home, with pay, during emergencies such as the COVID-19 pandemic, the country's budget watchdog said in a report released on Friday, July 24, 2020.
Feds to temporarily halt collection of Phoenix overpayments from civil servants
The federal government will no longer try to recover money overpaid to its employees until all of their outstanding pay issues have been resolved, officials confirmed on Tuesday, March 13, 2018.