Public service employment has grown by 31 per cent

[daftandbarmy]

Bingo!

It's never just the 82 weeks that you need to pay in these cases. Some will also inevitably be challenged and result in a far larger $$$ bill at the end than just simply letting said persons time out, get sick, pass away, find a better vessel to parasite themselves to, etc.

I worked with a guy like this in the private sector. He was enough of a menace that they are basically paying him to stay home now. I have more work now in theory but my job has actually become easier now that he isn't touching anything and $#%#jng it up .

Pareto Principle is a real thing....

Good point... this isn't just a public sector thing.

 

[Colin Parkinson]

So, there are currently 64 Assistant or Associate Deputy Ministers without a job. They stay home and get paid rather than be retired or reassigned.

They are all Ex-03 or 04 with an average salary range of 220K and 250K.

Maybe start cutting there......

Send their jobs to Churchill. That will boost the town's economy....

 

[daftandbarmy]

Well, if it was part of the office culture then...

Service Canada clerk fired for snooping reinstated as board cites office culture​

A Service Canada employee fired for repeatedly accessing confidential Employment Insurance records has been reinstated after a federal labour board found such snooping was common in the office.

The Public Sector Labour Relations and Employment Board ruled that the firing of the Richmond Hill, Ontario clerk was too harsh, noting she had accessed files 107 times over 16 years — mostly involving family members — without personal financial gain or any losses to the employer.

Blacklock's Reporter says the board replaced the dismissal with a 30-day suspension without pay.

“She explained that was the office culture,” wrote adjudicator Caroline Engmann. “She and colleagues copied each others’ answers and did not pay close attention to the training material.”

The 39-year employee came under investigation after a colleague reported that she was reviewing EI files without clear work-related reasons. Under Service Canada’s Code of Conduct, employees are prohibited from looking up information that is not necessary for their duties, including checking a family member’s benefits or searching for a friend’s phone number.

Engmann noted the woman believed she was being helpful.

“In some quirky way, she believed she was being efficient because it only took two to three minutes to check the information,” she wrote. The board concluded that while the clerk gave preferential treatment to relatives, “there was no fraudulent activity” and all the transactions were legitimate.

Service Canada clerk fired for snooping reinstated as board cites office culture

A Service Canada employee fired for repeatedly accessing confidential Employment Insurance records has been reinstated after a federal labour board found such snooping was common in the office.

www.westernstandard.news

 

[Remius]

Number of federal public service jobs could drop by almost 60,000, report predicts

A new report by the Canadian Centre for Policy Alternatives says the federal public service could shed almost 60,000 jobs over the next four years as Ottawa looks to cut costs.

www.ctvnews.ca

I hope people have a plan…

 

[dapaterson]

Number of federal public service jobs could drop by almost 60,000, report predicts

A new report by the Canadian Centre for Policy Alternatives says the federal public service could shed almost 60,000 jobs over the next four years as Ottawa looks to cut costs.

www.ctvnews.ca

I hope people have a plan…

Individually or at an enterprise level?

 

[Remius]

Individually or at an enterprise level?

Individually but can easily apply to both

 

[Jarnhamar]

Oh, please.

I remember reading interviews in April with public servants who were certain the gravy train would never end under the LPC and voted accordingly.

I am not saying that you didn’t see it coming, but I feel like others only wanted to see what they wanted to see.

"Caps not cuts"

 

[daftandbarmy]

"Caps not cuts"

Attrition works well but it's too slow, and it seems they're looking for 24% cuts so the Day of Reckoning is probably nigh ...

Cap or cuts? Public servants have 40,000 reasons to worry​

A former public service executive who managed cuts at CBSA speculates that tens of thousands of positions could be slashed.

Once final decisions are made, public service executives and managers will have the daunting task of realizing identified savings. The rolling three-year average attrition rate in the federal government is roughly 4 per cent or 10,000-12,000 employees per year. So, even at 40,000 FTEs, a significant portion of the desired FTE savings can likely come from not staffing current vacancies and using attrition.

Reductions that can’t be absorbed will likely result in the use of workforce adjustment to help employees find another job within growing sectors of the government or make the transition out of the public service altogether.

I was the lead director general for implementing the Deficit Reduction Action Plan targets at the CBSA from 2012 to 2014, under the government of then-prime minister Stephen Harper. We had to cut more than 1,000 FTEs.

We harvested salary savings from funded vacancies, used voluntary departures through early retirement, internally deployed staff from cut positions to vacancies, found offsets from new spending to deploy cut personnel to new jobs (where skill sets fit), and employed targeted use of workforce adjustment. In the end, the CBSA managed to realize its savings from 2012 to 2014 with fewer than 100 employees who lost their jobs involuntarily.

I think it’s reasonable for you and many public servants to be concerned about the next federal budget and coming FTE cuts. Few people know for certain how deep the cut side of the ledger will be (as opposed to the reinvestment side of new spending under a new “cap”). In any scenario, I would be doing you an injustice to say “don’t worry” because the net impact will be hard on people.

Cap or cuts? Public servants have 40,000 reasons to worry

A former federal director general explains what $13B in savings could mean for job reductions across departments and what public servants should watch for in the months ahead.

ottawacitizen.com

 

[Halifax Tar]

Or shifted to DND ?

I've been told DND will be spared and expanded to capitalize on the influx of funds.

 

[YZT580]

Or shifted to DND ?

I've been told DND will be spared and expanded to capitalize on the influx of funds.

Hopefully with prime candidates and not via seniority. Most of us know or knew people who specialized in doing nothing well and thus ended up at the top

 

[PPCLI Guy]

Attrition works well but it's too slow, and it seems they're looking for 24% cuts so the Day of Reckoning is probably nigh ...

Cap or cuts? Public servants have 40,000 reasons to worry​

A former public service executive who managed cuts at CBSA speculates that tens of thousands of positions could be slashed.

Once final decisions are made, public service executives and managers will have the daunting task of realizing identified savings. The rolling three-year average attrition rate in the federal government is roughly 4 per cent or 10,000-12,000 employees per year. So, even at 40,000 FTEs, a significant portion of the desired FTE savings can likely come from not staffing current vacancies and using attrition.

Reductions that can’t be absorbed will likely result in the use of workforce adjustment to help employees find another job within growing sectors of the government or make the transition out of the public service altogether.

I was the lead director general for implementing the Deficit Reduction Action Plan targets at the CBSA from 2012 to 2014, under the government of then-prime minister Stephen Harper. We had to cut more than 1,000 FTEs.

We harvested salary savings from funded vacancies, used voluntary departures through early retirement, internally deployed staff from cut positions to vacancies, found offsets from new spending to deploy cut personnel to new jobs (where skill sets fit), and employed targeted use of workforce adjustment. In the end, the CBSA managed to realize its savings from 2012 to 2014 with fewer than 100 employees who lost their jobs involuntarily.

I think it’s reasonable for you and many public servants to be concerned about the next federal budget and coming FTE cuts. Few people know for certain how deep the cut side of the ledger will be (as opposed to the reinvestment side of new spending under a new “cap”). In any scenario, I would be doing you an injustice to say “don’t worry” because the net impact will be hard on people.

Cap or cuts? Public servants have 40,000 reasons to worry

A former federal director general explains what $13B in savings could mean for job reductions across departments and what public servants should watch for in the months ahead.

ottawacitizen.com

So basically save all the wood, even the deadwood....as opposed to seizing on the opportunity to cull the herd of its weakest to strengthen the loverall herd

 

[Remius]

Or shifted to DND ?

I've been told DND will be spared and expanded to capitalize on the influx of funds.

Could happen. But DND will still be doing the same review exercise but at 5%.

PS types that get WFAed can be given a reasonable offer of another position. Other wise they can be put on a priority hire list. Some can also alternate with someone who wants to be WFAed.

If they do this right, DND, RCMP and CBSA who will have growth targets could benefit from taking some WFAed people. PGs, FIs come to mind among others classifications.

 

[dapaterson]

Could happen. But DND will still be doing the same review exercise but at 5%.

PS types that get WFAed can be given a reasonable offer of another position. Other wise they can be put on a priority hire list. Some can also alternate with someone who wants to be WFAed.

If they do this right, DND, RCMP and CBSA who will have growth targets could benefit from taking some WFAed people. PGs, FIs come to mind among others classifications.

DND's target is 2%, not 5%. So cut by 2% while growing to 2%, so there's absolutely no possible way for any confusion.

 

[Remius]

DND's target is 2%, not 5%. So cut by 2% while growing to 2%, so there's absolutely no possible way for any confusion.

Sorry my bad , yes. 2%

 

[daftandbarmy]

So basically save all the wood, even the deadwood....as opposed to seizing on the opportunity to cull the herd of its weakest to strengthen the loverall herd

 

[QV]

Ottawa's top HR official aims to reduce excess senior executives in public service: memo

The federal government says there are too many senior executives in the public service, slowing productivity and creating workplace conflicts.

nationalpost.com

That seems like a lot of extra ADMs.

 

[mariomike]

Not sure how they "cull the herd" in Ottawa, but in our corner of the country, there was never a layoff in street level Emergency Operations.

No matter how desperate the financial situation was.

Instead, Management were permanently terminated to save on salaries. Layoff / Recall for them was not an option.

 

[daftandbarmy]

Don't worry buddy, if COVID and WFH hasn't already killed your town...

Mayor spoke to prime minister in hopes public service cuts won't be 'devastating' for Ottawa​

Mark Sutcliffe says he is very worried about the prospect of job cuts to the federal public service.

Mayor Mark Sutcliffe says he has spoken with Prime Minister Mark Carney to try to blunt the impact of potential federal public service cuts could have on Ottawa.

Sutcliffe told the Ottawa Citizen that he’s very worried about the prospect of job cuts within the public service, and that he’s had discussions with Carney and other federal officials to try to ensure they won’t be “devastating” on the local economy.

“The federal government is our largest employer in our city and it’s the largest landowner in our city,” he said. “We need to work closely together on a plan to support the local economy, support any workers who lose their jobs and help them transition to other employment.”

In early July, Finance Minister François-Philippe Champagne sent letters to cabinet ministers asking them to find 15 per cent in savings over three years. Cabinet ministers have until the end of the summer to propose savings in their departments.

Some government organizations, such as the Department of National Defence, the RCMP and Canada Border Services Agency, have a lower target of two per cent over three years. And other organizations, such as the office of the auditor general and the Supreme Court of Canada, won’t be impacted by the spending review.

In his election platform, Carney pledged to “cap, but not cut” the size of the public service, but some public sector unions have accused the prime minister of breaking that promise.

Mayor spoke to prime minister in hopes public service cuts won't be 'devastating' for Ottawa

Mark Sutcliffe says he is very worried about the prospect of job cuts to the federal public service.

ottawacitizen.com