I’ve Seen the Enemy and the Enemy is US
Throughout history mankind has devised ways to better his lot. Better organization. Better technology. Better education. Unfortunately, we are almost equally good at injuring ourselves by doing things like stiffling technology, fighting wars and setting false priorities.
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…
La budgétisation de base : pierre angulaire de la gestion financière personnelle
Pourquoi budgétiser? Loin d’être un exercice intellectuel, c’est une question très pratique influencée par des facteurs extérieurs. À votre réveil, vous réalisez un jour que vous avez travaillé pendant une grande partie de votre vie et que vous en avez tiré très…
Application du plan dentaire à l’étranger
Il est à espérer que tous ceux d’entre vous qui désiraient adhérer au plan dentaire de la fonction publique fédérale (CNM) et y inscrire leur famille ont eu l’occasion de compléter le formulaire approprié avant le 30 avril 1987. Si cela n’est…
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…
Bedfellows
Bedfellows, by C.J. Masson, is, on the surface, a poorly-written melange of dangling participles, jargon, and pseudonymic pinpricks unworthy of the Canada Council assistance it received.
Managing Managers: The PAFSO Evaluation Guide
It has frequently been observed that there exists a fundamental asymmetry within the department, in that the formal appraisal system, like many other aspects of bureaucratic process, works principally from the top down. Among other things, this situation has had a detrimental…
From Our Treasurer . . .
It is difficult for any treasurer to have to advise members that their fees are going to have to be raised, even more so when the increase will be 77% in a world of 6% and 5%. However, there has not been…
PROFILE: PAFSO Executive Director
A native of Montreal, Christine Manseau was born in the province of Quebec where she attended primary school. She completed her secondary studies at the Collège Notre-Dame de Bellevue in Quebec City and then spent a year studying English in Boston. Upon…
REORGANIZED AGAIN
Well, the other shoe has dropped. We have been shaken up once again. It has been called an “organizational adjustment”, but what the Under-Secretary announced June 30 amounts to a second, fundamental reorganization of the Department of External Affairs. There is still…
