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on remote work and will be requiring public servants to spend three days a week in the office by mid-September.
That policy, which applies to all core public administration employees, students and casual workers, now calls for deputy heads to implement a “minimum requirement of three days per week in the workplace for all public servants,” noting that it’s also acceptable to require a minimum of 60 per cent of employees’ regular schedule on a weekly or monthly basis “to ensure flexibility for operational reasons and job types.
Exceptional exemptions will be made “on a case-by-case basis on a time-limited or longer-term duration.” The topic of telework has been a major point of contention among unions and was a sticking point during last year’s Public Service Alliance of Canada strike, involving over 155,000 workers.Alex Silas, PSAC’s regional executive vice-president for the National Capital Region, said it’s frustrating how the government went about making the change.
“I think the big one for most folks is transit and the cost of it,” Taylor said. Parking downtown is expensive and, without an LRT connection to the east end of the city, taking transit from his Rockland home takes an hour and a half each way, he noted.
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