After months of waiting, retired and former PSAC members finally have access to Phoenix general damages. Any former member, legal representative of a former member or estate of a deceased member who worked for the federal public service between 2016 and 2020, and is eligible, can now claim the maximum lump sum of $2,500. This includes compensation for the late […]
PSAC and Treasury Board have reached an agreement to lift the moratorium on the automatic cash-out of vacation and compensatory leave for the PA, TC, EB, SV and FB groups. In previous years, in order to address the shortcomings of the Phoenix pay system and allow compensation advisors to focus on fixing outstanding pay issues, […]
The Customs and Immigration Union is proud of the work accomplished by its delegates at the 2021 PSAC National Equity Conferences, which took place from November 23 to November 28, 2021. With a focus on justice, equity, diversity and inclusion, CIU members were active within all four conferences — Indigenous, Racially visible, Pride, and Access […]
The following was sent by the CIU National President to the Montreal Gazette’s Editor in response to the article ‘Confusion swirls around ArriveCAN app and its use at the Canadian-U.S. border’, published Dec. 7, 2021. In a perplexing article, the Montreal Gazette was recently reporting that the federal government was “reining in overzealous border guards” who had […]
On December 6, 1989, 14 young women were killed at l’École Polytechnique in Montreal simply for being women. Since then, we have made gains in addressing gender-based violence, but almost 40 per cent of working women in Canada still experience violence in their homes, with ripple effects reaching the workplace and putting their jobs and […]
