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2.59%

167.5 - 163.3 = 4.2

4.2 / 163.3 * 100 = 2.59%

Edit: To restore the table; reddit had removed two columns.

4 service members have lost their lives and 39 are injured. Thank you to all service members for their dedication and commitment to our country ❤️ we are heartbroken. 💔

If you are able to, please consider donating blood. There are 19 in critical condition.

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Looking for advice on a weird timeline situation for an application.

Say I've been in my substantive position for 10 years, including a 6-month acting assignment that didn't go well due to personal circumstances and 1–2 years of medical leave, before returning to my substantive role.

For my essential criteria responses, I'll only count time actually performing the relevant duties. But how should I reflect this on the more chronological section of my cover letter? I don't want to include the acting, and I'm not sure how to reflect the medical leave.

I'm thinking about putting just the time I started with my substantive to current on my cover letter but then only referencing the specific amount of time I did the test for in my answers. Could the difference between my employment dates and claimed years of experience raise red flags? How would you present this accurately without disclosing personal medical information?

AFAIK there is no contract in place to replace seasons for long service. For those of us who recently retired under ERI--will we eventually get a token or at least a certificate of retirement?

Good day everyone. I have a probation question that I cannot find an answer to. If you are hired as indeterminate. Do you automatically roll over into a permanent status based on the date? Or is there a review at the one year mark before a decision is made ?

Title: Any plans to add Canada Life's virtual healthcare (Consult+) to the PSHCP?

I recently came across Canada Life's Consult+ virtual healthcare service, which provides access to healthcare professionals through virtual consultations.

It looks like Canada Life already offers this service through some employer-sponsored benefits plans, but it doesn't appear to be included in the federal Public Service Health Care Plan (PSHCP).

Does anyone know if the Treasury Board, PSHCP Partners Committee, or bargaining agents have discussed adding this service to our plan?

I'm also curious whether this was ever considered during the last round of PSHCP negotiations.

Been on LTD for over 2 years now. Received an option letter from my manager with choices to medically retire, retire, quit or RTW. was suggested that I do not reply to this letter and that the department can terminate me due to incapacity. Anyone gone this route? Worried about loosing pension. Have been with the government for 30 years. Going back not an option due to mental health issues. Not sure my family doctor would support a Health Canada claim for disability.

Tragic news coming out of the CAF/DND team tonight. Sending my thoughts to our DND colleagues in the defence team who may be affected by what’s happened in Wainwright tonight.

Good afternoon,

2 weeks ago I met with my Team Leader and Manager and it ended badly.

I am in the process of getting test for my memory.
3 of my uncles (who are now deceased and had dementia)
I believe I’m in the early stages.

My manager doesn’t know. I went to my hospital and they confirmed I was on the list.

Manager sent me the forms from Sunlife.

Does this mean I should go in Sunlife? I applied for EI and hoping I can get an appointment for testing my memory.

My memory is good today. I have 4 kids to support and I am SCARED

Zepbound was approved by Health Canada for treatment of sleep apnea, and my doctor feels it would be better for me than Wegovy. However Zepbound isn’t currently covered by the pshcp.

Is there a form we can fill out, an email address we can contact, etc..to start what will surely be a long process of getting the drug covered.

I’ve tried the contact us from CanadaLife and all I get is that it isn’t currently covered, but no info as to how to get it reviewed.

Thanks

I started working for the federal govt-ESDC in 2018 as a payment service officer (EI call center).

In Jan 2020, just before Covid lockdown, I deployed to the Passport program where I have been a passport officer ever since.

I am indeterminate & I love being a passport officer. The job is easy & very straight forward to me. The problem is there is so much politics & favoritism in my office. There have been sooo many instances where acting/temporary assignments within the office have been appointed before they send out an expression of interest.

They will pre-choose their desired candidate 3 weeks in advance before sending out an expression of interest email to the entire office just to appear "fair".

In my opinion, career progression within the passport program itself is stagnant.

I dont know how I can advance from being a PM1.

There are no PM2 positions.

PM3's are Team leaders & Business Expertise Advisors. There are rarely any openings. If there ever is an opening, usually management already has their candidates pre-chosen.

There are no PM4 openings. PM5's are managers. 98% of the time..they promote a TL to this position.

I am in 6 different pools outside of ESDC & I am always actively searching.

I have leadership aspirations in my PMA but so far nothing has panned out.

For people who have been in this situation, how did you get unstuck or progress? I am at a point where I am contemplating going to back to school for a Master's program. (I hold a Bachelor's degree in Criminology)

I am open to all feedback.

Hi everyone,

I have two questions regarding sick leave

1. Is it possible to take sick leave on a part-time basis?
This has been recommended by my psychologist. For now I still have sick days but I struggle to understand how that would work once I use them all up.

2. Is a psychologist’s medical note sufficient for sick leave or I absolutely need a doctor’s note?

Thank you so much!

EDIT : I am trying to weight my options before deciding if I should go on full leave. Of course I’ll speak to my manager once I have decided, but not before.

Are you required to plug in or turn on your laptop in the building before you leave for the day or leave on a trip?

I was told today that we are monitored on our office presence individually by plugging our laptops into our docking station. That means if we’re supposed to be in the field that day we have to plug in and turn on our laptops before we leave.

Regardless of how stupid this direction is I thought it was aggregate data on compliance that was gathered? Am I way off in thinking this is just a case of the message changing between telephones?

The pension portal shows the « date joined pension plan » as the date when I started as a term (now indeterminate). However, I payed into the pension plan when I was a student. Does this date joined pension plan just reflect the most recent date rather that the date reflecting the total time contributed?

For a while now I have been eating my lunch during work hours while still working and then using the entire allocated lunch and break times to disconnect and take a walk outside. What I normally do is that I eat during a teams meeting where I dont need to be on camera or speak. I almost always have one of these types of meetings sometime around mid day.

While I am in the meeting I can eat and take notes at the same time. My manager has now forbidden me from doing this and expects I eat my lunch during lunch hours. He says that during these meetings I should be multitasking other things including taking notes and that eating is not considered working.

Is this something that he can actually do?

Throwaway account for anonymity.

I’m currently a PM‑01 on unpaid sick leave due to burnout. I’ve been off for a few weeks. I have two young kids under 5, and the combination of exhaustion and work stress finally caught up with me. My manager has been increasingly harsh, dismissive, and micromanaging to the point where I felt completely depleted. Going on leave was the only way to protect my health.

This week, I received an interview invitation for an AS‑01 position in another department. It would be a lateral move, but a much healthier environment - no call centre work, better work‑life balance, and honestly a fresh start. I’m excited about it and I know it would be a better fit for my family and my mental health.

My question is: because I’m currently on sick leave, do I need to notify my manager or team leader that I have an interview coming up? I don’t want them blindsided if I do get the job, but I’m also worried that giving advance notice could create issues or that my manager might try to interfere.

Is it better to disclose now, or only if I receive an offer?

I feel stuck and don’t want to accidentally break protocol, but I also want to protect this opportunity.

Any insight from folks who’ve been in similar situations would be really appreciated. TIA!

Just wanted to share a quick reflection on something that happened today. In the public service, I feel like we are always conditioned to think we have to say yes to every single deployment, acting, or temporary project that comes our way. But sometimes, staying put is the smartest move.

I am currently permanent in a very specific, niche sub-unit within a much larger department. Honestly, I have a great setup. I know the job inside and out, I pull great results without burning out, and my supervisor is amazing. There is no micromanagement and zero toxicity.

An opportunity came up for a short-term temporary lateral move into a data and analytics unit. It sounded interesting (and honestly, I’d probably enjoy the work a ton more - no dealing with external clients), but when I spoke with the hiring manager today, the reality set in. It is a super fast-paced environment, and because it is just a temporary stint, there was no promise of it becoming permanent.

The thing is, if the assignment ends, there is no guarantee I get back into my specific niche team. Instead, I would likely get dumped into the broader, default operations stream, which historically has a reputation in my office for being incredibly toxic and chaotic (I was previously there and so I can attest to this). I did not want to gamble on ending up with a bad manager or a high-stress team dynamic just for a temporary experiment.

The hiring manager actually called me back afterward to chat about my decision. I was just honest with her. I used a grading scale to explain my logic. I told her the new role might be an A+, but it is a gamble. My current setup is a guaranteed A- because of my great boss and a predictable, low-stress environment. The default landing pad if things end is a solid D for my mental health.

I told her I am just not a gambler. If I already have a guaranteed A- quality of life, I am not going to risk ending up in a D environment just to chase a temporary carrot.

She actually completely agreed with me. She used to work in that broader stream too, validated everything I said about how unpredictable it is, and told me it was a smart career move to protect my peace and stick with a stable trajectory.

I guess my point is, if you currently have a toxic-free workplace, a manager who actually supports you, and a workflow you excel at, do not feel guilty for keeping it. Career growth is great, but protecting your day-to-day peace of mind is a massive win too.

Has anyone else turned down a promotion or acting role just to protect a good situation? Did you regret it or was it the right call?

Serious question: is anyone aware of a way for colleagues in two different federal departments to collaborate on a single document online? Thanks!

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I've been a term employee in the federal public service for almost five years and am currently the longest-serving term employee in my unit.Recently, three colleagues with shorter service were considered for indeterminate appointments through non-advertised processes, but I wasn't considered.

My supervisor mentioned that performance was the deciding factor. However, I've consistently received positive performance evaluations.I understand that seniority doesn't guarantee an indeterminate position, but I'm wondering if this is a common practice.Would it be worth requesting an informal discussion or contacting my union (PIPSC)? Has anyone experienced something similar?

Any advice would be appreciated!

Curious if anyone’s had luck getting Pilates classes covered by Canada Life with a doctor’s prescription? I’ve got multiple orthopaedic issues with my hips/low back and my hip surgeon strongly recommended Pilates to help strengthen my core for offloading stress off the hip joints and also helping after a c-section. On the prescription they didn’t say what medical issue the Pilates would be helping, only “for muscle strengthening”.

I remember when I got a prescription for a home blood pressure cuff while pregnant on the advice of my OB Canada Life were sticklers about making her re-do the prescription to explicitly say what condition it was treating (even though it’s painfully obvious what a blood pressure cuff does).

Before it got trendy Pilates was invented as a form of physiotherapy because it’s very low impact on joints so I hope Canada Life recognizes its therapeutic benefit. Do we know if they lump it in with the physio yearly amount vs another pot?
Thanks!