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…
Modifications à la Loi sur la pension de la Fonction publique
Un projet de réforme du Régime de la pension de la Fonction publique a été introduit à la Chambre à l’automne et sera étudié par un comité parlementaire avant son adoption.
How External Spends Its Money
We all know External Affairs is a big operation involving a lot of manpower and of money — over 4000 person years and over $800 million this fiscal year. Where does all the money go? Who gets the biggest slice of the…
Department Personnel Officials Meet PAFSO
Members of the PAFSO executive met with representatives of Personnel April 8 to discuss issues pertaining to the shape, size, and role of the service, career development, the health of the service and contract follow-up’s.
CO Conversion
By now, you will all have received the departmental telex announcing the conversion of CO positions to the Foreign Service Group. PAFSO realizes the implications this decision will have on its membership. Consultations will be on-going with the department throughout this exercise.…
Oral Submission to the Board
proposal, we would submit that it must be within the powers of this Board to consider this matter, whether as a question “necessarily incidental” to the arbitration under Section 67, or as a factor relevant to the matters in dispute under Section…
Where Do We Go From Here?
In contract negotiations with Treasury Board, PAFSO is somewhat in the position of a small company trying to renegotiate a service contract with a giant monopolist. Although Treasury Board negotiators and lawyers are skilled professionals, amicable and polite, they leave no doubt…
Arbitration! A Summary and Result
After 13 rounds of bargaining PAFSO was unable to negotiate a contract with Treasury Board. For the first time in its history PAFSO turned to an Arbitral Tribunal for a new collective agreement.
Foreign Service Contract Update
For the first time ever PAFSO has gone to arbitration. Despite strong efforts over the past months by the PAFSO bargaining team in more than 13 contract negotiation meetings with representatives of Treasury Board and the Department of External Affairs, agreement has…
Directives sur le service extérieur
Les consultations relatives à la révision triennale des directives sur le service extérieur se sont terminées par une impasse. Les parties représentées au sein du comité n’ont pu en arriver à un consensus eu égard aux DSE16 Honoraires de ventes d’immeuble et…
