The Professional Institute of the Public Service of Canada said that a new report on federal employee sick leave released by the Parliamentary Budget Officer (PBO) provides further evidence that Treasury Board President Tony Clement (Parry Sound-Muskoka, Ont.) has been purposely inflating numbers related to the existing sick leave system in an effort to replace it with a new … Read more
The Professional Institute of the Public Service of Canada (PIPSC) is using the one-year anniversary of Shared Services Canada’s (SSC) outsourcing of email services to corporate IT giants Bell and CGI to raise public alarms about weaknesses in the department’s outsourcing policy. The email transformation operation, which aims to streamline and consolidate all federal government … Read more
The Professional Institute of the Public Service of Canada (PIPSC), which represents provincial Crown Prosecutors, Crown Counsel, Engineers, Land Surveyors, Architects, Veterinarians, Agrologists and Agronomists, is calling on New Brunswick Premier David Alward to extend to the province’s other employees the same opportunity to negotiate changes to government employee pensions previously extended to the province’s … Read more
The Professional Institute of the Public Service of Canada issued a statement regarding the 2014 federal budget: “With this Budget, the interests of Canadians have been sacrificed in favour of electoral considerations and an irrational obsession with balanced budgets. It keeps Canada on the wrong course and puts Canadians’ health, environment and economic prosperity at risk. It … Read more
Canadians hoping to gauge the hazards of the government’s ongoing budget cuts need look no further than the impact of the cuts on government science, concludes a new report by the Professional Institute of the Public Service of Canada (PIPSC) titled “Vanishing Science,” based on recent, separate surveys of federal government scientists and the public. Download … Read more
The Professional Institute of the Public Service of Canada (PIPSC) which represents federal government scientists, researchers, auditors, engineers, IT experts and others said it has wrapped up two days of meetings by agreeing to a collective bargaining strategy that deals squarely with the threats posed to its members and the public by Bill C-4 and … Read more
Members of the Professional Institute of the Public Service of Canada (PIPSC) elected a new president to lead their union over the next two years. Current vice-president Debi Daviau was elected president in the fifth round of balloting. Detailed results of the election conducted between Nov. 7 and Dec. 4, 2013 are available on the … Read more
More than 400 delegates representing 55,000 federal government scientists and other professionals voted overwhelmingly to call on their union, the Professional Institute of the Public Service (PIPSC) to "apply all necessary resources to defend public services for all Canadians and collective bargaining rights for the professional public servants who deliver them." Delegates to the Professional … Read more
Gary Corbett, president of the Professional Institute of the Public Service of Canada (PIPSC) made remarks on the occasion of PIPSC's 94th Annual General Meeting. Former Parliamentary Budget Officer Kevin Page was the keynote speaker and received the Institute's inaugural "Public Accountability" award. Corbett said the government should learn from its mistakes and embrace both the challenge and … Read more
Gary Corbett, president of the Professional Institute of the Public Service of Canada, met with New Brunswick's finance minister, Blaine Higgs, to call attention to the institute's opposition to the provincial government's plans to repeal the Public Service Superannuation Act (PSSA), and to replace the current plan with a Shared Risk Plan. He emphasized that … Read more
