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Canadian government readies return-to-office mandate in effort to codify hybrid work model

The Canadian federal government will soon require public servants to work from the office at least two to three days a week. The mandate outlining the new arrangement is expected […]

US House Republicans vote to make it easier to fire individual federal officials and cut pay

Republicans in the House of Representatives have resurrected the ‘Holman Rule’, allowing lawmakers to use spending bills to abolish federal agencies, defund specific government programmes and fire individual civil servants […]

Job satisfaction of US federal officials falls, annual employee survey finds

US federal employees are significantly less satisfied in their jobs this year than in the midst of the COVID-19 pandemic – and are particularly dissatisfied with pay, a major survey […]
A woman wearing a sunhat and wrapped in a Canadian flag looks out at a lake and mountains, with her back to the camera.

Women Leaders Index: how the Canadian public service achieved gender parity in its highest ranks

Canada is the only G20 country to have reached gender balance in public service leadership positions, a new report from Global Government Forum has found. Here, long-time public service leader […]
Federal building in Ontario

Canadian government becoming ‘hybrid by design’ says minister in challenge to back-to-office calls

Treasury Board president Mona Fortier has insisted that the Government of Canada is working to harness the best of office and remote working as she responded to calls for business […]

US unions urge Congress to protect federal staff from Trump bid to strip employment protections

Congressional leaders have been urged to pass a bill that would block future governments from resurrecting a Trump-era bid to strip career federal employees of their civil service protections, in […]
A construction worker wearing a hi-vis vest and hard hat ours concrete.

US federal government tasked with delivering Biden’s landmark infrastructure law ‘on time, on task and on budget’

The US federal government “must take a leadership role” in delivering the Biden administration’s landmark US$1.2 trillion infrastructure package “on time, on task and on budget”, according to a new […]

Black public servants in Canada having to ‘recount trauma’ in US$1.97bn racism lawsuit, says organiser

One of the organisers behind a legal case alleging black public servants suffered racism over a period of five decades has accused the Government of Canada of delaying the case […]
Democrat representative Gerry Connolly gives a speech wearing a suit.

US lawmakers vote to shield feds from Trump threat to make them more easily fireable if re-elected

The House of Representatives has passed legislation that would stop future presidents from stripping federal employees of civil service protections without Congressional approval. The ‘Preventing a Patronage System’ bill cleared […]
President Joe Biden stands in front of a blue sign at COP26 in Glasgow in November 2021.

US government agencies to roll out climate change training for officials to help meet targets

The White House has issued instructions to agencies on how to achieve the federal government’s climate change goals, including through the development of sustainability-focused training programmes for departmental staff. The […]