Open Office Landscaping in the Pearson Building // L’aménagement paysager à l’immeuble Pearson

The decision of senior management to adopt “open office landscaping” in the L.B. Pearson Building, as announced in the August issue of the Department of External Affairs Reorganization Newsletter, has aroused a strong adverse reaction throughout the Department. Concern about the proposed…
Dear Member // Chers membres

Whether in Ottawa or filling an assignment elsewhere, you are doubtless aware of the announced plans of the Government of Canada to meet the economic problems presently battering this country. As a companion to various other measures of economic policy the government…
Report of the PAFSO Committee on the Review of the FSD’s // Rapport du comité de l’APASE sur les révisions des DSE

Last fall the Executive established a committee to prepare PAFSO’s proposals for the Triennial Review of the FSD’s. We did question whether the exercise would have any meaning given the parallel work of the McDougall Commission; in light of the fate of…
Report of the PAFSO Bargaining Team // Rapport du comité de négociation de l’APASE

Starting in mid February PAFSO met with Treasury Board four times and reached agreement with the employer on a new one-year contract effective March 15, 1981. At the beginning of the process PAFSO tabled a package containing inter alia the following demands:
President’s Message // Message de la présidente

We have had a very busy year and I wish to take this opportunity to thank those members of PAFSO who have spent many hours of their personal time working on the various sub-committees that have been established.