From the President’s Desk // Le mot du président
Democracy is alive and well at PAFSO. At the fall Annual General Meeting over fifty percent of the membership elected 11 new members to the Executive out of a slate of 20 candidates. I believe that we now have a very strong…
PAFSO Is Ready to Serve You
The PAFSO office and its Executive Director exist to assist the membership with problems they encounter in their professional and rotational life. The PAFSO Executive Director is hired by the Executive Committee and reports directly to the President of PAFSO. The responsibilities…
From the President’s Desk // Le mot du président
This is my last column for bout de papier, written with one foot on the airplane. Thanks to CIDA’s decentralization plans, I am being posted to Dar-es-Salaam, from whence it will be very difficult to come back for Executive meetings and other…
From the President’s Desk // Le mot du président
Members in Canada watching television on January 24 will almost certainly have tuned in to a late evenig CTV interview of Minister Clark by Doug Fisher. For those of you who missed it, it was an interesting session touching, variously, on Central…
From the President’s Desk // Le mot du président
A hidden bonus of becoming President of PAFSO is that the Editor kindly provides an opportunity to express one’s opinions publicly, with at least a fighting chance that someone amongst the readers may actually read them. What follow are thoughts on several…
From the President’s Desk
On September 21, the President of PAFSO, John Lobsinger, addressed the Annual General Meeting. The following are extracts from his statement.
Dépêche d’Adieu: Or Three and a Half Years Later, the Self Indulgent Farewell
As Walrus said to the Carpenter, the time has come to talk of many things. But for the ex-editor, with his bottom no longer in the chair, to pretend to have suddenly found fresh things to say would be suspect for having…
From the President of PAFSO
By the time this reaches print, many of us on the Executive Committee will have moved on. Some of us have been caught up in the inexorable posting cycle and will be reading this far from our bright new offices on Rideau…
Le congé de maternité à l’étranger
On a récemment établi qu’il n’était pas possible à une employée enceinte en poste à l’étranger et désirant y demeurer pour avoir son bébé de se prévaloir de son droit à un congé de maternité sous sa convention collective.
Parité salariale pour des fonctions équivalentes
Le président du Conseil du Trésor a annoncé récemment qu’il a accepté et entériné un plan de mise en oeuvre de la parité salariale pour des fonctions équivalentes dans la fonction publique fédérale. Ce plan a été proposé par un comité d’étude…
