On Tuesday, November 21, the CIU National Executive was in Laval, Quebec, to tour the local CBSA Immigration Holding Centre (IHC), following an invitation by the Agency to review ongoing upgrades to these facilities to accommodate higher-risk immigration detainees who will no longer be held in provincial establishments. While it is too early to fully assess […]
Earlier this year, PSAC announced that we successfully negotiated key improvements to the Public Service Health Care Plan (PSHCP) for federal public service workers, and the new plan came into effect on July 1, 2023. On the same date, the employer transferred the PSHCP provider contract from Sun Life to Canada Life as part of […]
Following CBSA’s decision to start holding high-risk detainees in Immigration Holding Centres (IHCs) effective August 1, 2023, the question has come up whether dealing with high-risk detainees would now be included as a ‘danger’ in the normal condition of employment of our members (please see the following document for more information on danger as a […]
On July 1, 2023, the federal government implemented a transfer of the Public Service Health Care Plan (PSHCP) provider from Sun Life to Canada Life, resulting in changes for more than 1 million federal public service workers, retirees and their dependents. This change was initiated and operationalized by the employer, and it is the Employer’s […]
This April 28, on the National Day of Mourning, we will join over 100 countries in remembering those who have lost their lives due to work-related causes. Every year, people across the globe die as a result of unsafe working conditions, insufficient health and safety measures and protection equipment, and poorly implemented policies. All too […]
