Treasury Board

Large numbers of public servants working in the federal government's three biggest departments aren't following Ottawa's three-days-per-week office work rule, federal data shows.

The Public Service Alliance of Canada has reached a tentative contract agreement with the Treasury Board covering more than 120,000 federal government workers across the country.

Ottawa public servant YuTaek Hwang has been working remotely for nearly three years.

The federal Treasury Board says it has no plans to expand a bonus — now paid to employees who speak English and French — to those who know an Indigenous language.

Federal public service unions say the government's plan to get employees back to the office is confusing, disjointed and jeopardizing health and safety.

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.

Ottawa businesses affected by the weeks-long convoy protest will be able to apply for up to $15,000 to offset their losses starting Tuesday.

Freshly appointed Women and Gender Equality Minister Marci Ien says as part of her effort to combat gender-based violence she intends to place a lens on men to understand why it happens in the first place.

The country's biggest public-sector union says it's preparing for potential post-election strike action after accusing the government of walking away from contract talks affecting more than 70,000 federal employees.

The country's biggest public-sector union says it's prepared to stay at the bargaining table with the federal government to reach a new contract for more than 70,000 of its members as the clock ticks toward a general election campaign.

The federal team charged with finding a replacement for the government's troubled Phoenix pay system will present the Liberals with options within weeks that are expected to include "multiple pilot projects," government officials say.

Prime Minister Justin Trudeau added two new faces to his cabinet on Monday, January 14, 2019, morning, tapping Montreal MP David Lametti as Canada's new justice minister and Nova Scotia's Bernadette Jordan as minister of rural economic development — a new position on the front bench.

The federal government broke its own privacy rules this spring when it expanded the Five Eyes intelligence network to automatically share 1.2 million confidential Canadian files a year.

Fewer than 20 per cent of employees at Health Canada received mandatory training on ethics, values and conflict of interest between April 2013 and October 2016, the Auditor General found.

Those changes will be postponed, with no new timeline for implementing them.