The federal government has proposed to jointly review its current remote directive with unions
Civil servants returned to picket lines in the capital region on the sixth day of a nationwide strike Monday, as the federal government offered to review its return-to-office orders for remote workers — but didn’t budge on its latest wage offer.The union is asking for a 13.5 per cent wage increase over three years, while as part of separate negotiations, Canada Revenue Agency workers who are members of the Union of Taxation Employees, a PSAC subdivision, are asking for 20.
Most federal public servants had worked from home since the COVID-19 pandemic began in March 2020, but were required to start working from their offices at least two to three days a week by a March deadline. “I don’t think we need people constantly driving into work when they don’t need to come to work, parking is an issue, so if they can work from home, why not?
Kuldeep Deol, local president of Government Services Union Local 20001 who was on the picket lines in Victoria, said she lives in Kamloops but reports to a Vancouver office two days a week. At the time Shannon Salter, head of the B.C. public service, said the 36,000-member-strong B.C. public service lost about 3,000 employees just last year and filling those vacancies was an “urgent issue.”
At the federal level, however, there are very real and reasonable security concerns in some federal public sector jobs about working in different places connected to different networks, she said. “Not everyone can move to an island and work from home.”
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