Prenez garde – Why Severance Pay Matters…
A year after our interview with PAFSO Executive Director Ron Cochrane on challenges facing the membership, bout asked if there was anything new on the horizon. There is. He warns that severance pay (an important part of our overall compensation package payable…
Annoying Anomalies and Other Challenges: Ron Cochrane on PAFSO’s Agenda for 2011
Editor’s Note: The new year marks 10 years that Ron Cochrane has been PAFSO’s Executive Director and 30 years that he has dealt with staff relations issues with the Federal Government; a good time for a little stock taking with a view…
A New Year
PAFSO has survived another year, and the 2010-2011 Executive is now in place. Melanie Bejzyk, David De Rose, Kirk Duguid, David Edwards, Timothy Edwards, Alyssa Frohberg, Cael Husband, Marie- Hélène Jacques, Jonathon Kupi, Keith Lewis, Svitozar Omelko, Allison Poff, Stella Sweetman Griffin,…
The President’s Comments
bout is PAFSO’s premier publication, providing an outlet for issues of concern and interest to Foreign Service officers — the ESs. So when it was proposed that 1, as President, write an occasional column — this being the first example — I…
Family Friendly Policies
To paraphrase Jane Austen, it is a truth universally acknowledged that a happy, stable couple will consider having a child at some time. Or it might be an unplanned but welcome event. In the case of the foreign service, odds are this…
At the Crossroads / À la croisée des chemins
bout de papier readers may well have seen recent media coverage of the Foreign Service contract impasse and wondered what it is really all about.
The One Percent Solution
Gesturing out his office window, Chief MacBannock explained, “They’re covered by the Labour Relations Act, so we have to let them picket. But the Centre is covered by the Official Secrets Act, so we can make them do it in code.” Detective…
