Union for public service workers blasts feds over in-office mandate | Power Play with Vassy Kapelos
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- Public service workers are considering legal action against the feds over an in-office work mandate, union rep Stephanie Montreuil says.
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It’s embarrassing how useless this liberal government is. And the useless NDP as spineless as ever. What a rough shape Canada is in.
You forgot the third clown:
The Canadian Three Stooges; Jussie, Po, and Curly Schmoe.
Jughead deserves a lot of blame for the state we’re in
"If you don't come in tomorrow, don't bother coming in on Monday either."
Wu-Hoo 4 day weekend - Homer Simpson
40% more public servants, working from home and you can’t get thru to CRA. We all went back to work,you should too. How about 5 days a week.
CRA employees have not increased by 40% - not sure where you get that figure from. Do you know the CRA call center metrics? Of course you don't. Here's some inside info: for the Individual Income Tax Enquiries Line, number of calls have gone up by almost 20% since the pandemic (due mainly to emergency benefits), and the average calls handled per day per agent have gone up as a result. Mandating work from office only forces employees into old government buildings (some have rats and literally have rat traps beside each cubicle). If you think employees are more productive in that kind of environment, then you got some screws lose.
@@cw9282
You are simply leach of society. Your attitude, tou would not last in private sector a single day !!!!!. So again, your kind of are leach of our tax dolar and very poor service we get from your kind.
Canadian taxpayers should demand empirical, actionable intelligence (metrics) on the productivity of public service workers- regardless of their work-area locations. Unions should take a leadership role in this regard.
Unions submitted their work sheets. The previous year, the federal govt set (unofficial) tax collection targets for CRA, they beat that target by ~20%, Service Canada had similar targets, they beat that too. Despite, beating the Federal Govt's targets, the Treasury Board decided to stab them in the back.
Boneheads supported the liberals and look what happened.
public unions should be banned
@@libshastra When the bar is several inches below your feet,it’s not difficult to achive targets.
@@pauloantunes8372Do you know what the bar is? Do you know the data? No? Then sit down.
Who’s running the asylum? Management or staff??
staff obviously.
Should be reducing the size of the fat, bloated public sector and give the taxpayers some relief.
Enjoy waiting longer hours on the phone then.
And some service.
A 1.5 hr to 2 hr wait to speak to someone because the terrific go on line wasn’t working, how is this acceptable.
3 hours for me last week. Then I get some 20 to 25 year old who clearly wasn't born here, giving me nothing but attitude. As they say, you become a product of your environment. I suppose I should start adjusting my Canadian behavior accordingly.
Calling the CRA at tax time is a long wait every year.
@@user-fl3sr2kh5c
Of course…
And all this after massive increases to the public service over the past several years.
@@frederickclause2694
They keep selling the woe is me crap
No wonder our services suck!
Look at the arrive can app paperwork and financial reporting and tell me work from home is a success??????
Where did you see the arrive can paperwork?
Nothing to do with the topic
@@pattheegreat The problem there was very little paper work on the Arrive Can App. WE do not who was paid and how much. $60 million dollar boondoggle
@@theowoytowich9959 and you think it's because public servants didn't do their job?
@@pattheegreat Some body dropped the ball. Who was in charge of the Arrive Can App? It was a government project so government employee(s) was in charge!!
It’s 2024 and time for public service workers to return to office. Pandemic is long over.
100% you're stuck in a job that has never offered work from home.
@@MrBobbyBrown2006
What are we paying taxes for? The services suck.
Get on the bus.. go to work
To bad the government agreed to their contract stating two days only eh
@@jumbome7420show me that contract, I don’t believe you, prove it. No employer would be that stupid !!
I was on the phone with the CRA the other day as they decided to audit me, the worker was clearly working from home as she put me on hold twice because "someone was at the door". The call ended suddenly right after I could hear her kids screaming in the background. I wasn't called back and spent a few hours on hold the next day before giving up.
We could divest 50% of the public service. I have already solved one of their problems.
✅
As someone who works in this environment, its a mess of COVID hires from all over the country who agreed to move to a centralized office once the pandemic ended. I go to work and I am the only person in the office...now its time for them move to where to they work (they never intended too) and are throwing a fit about it.
But what's the point of moving them back in the office. Metrics show that they are more productive at home. Just to be spiteful?
When they started issuing passports when working from home, they were able to process 25k applications per month. Before the pandemic while full time at the office, they were able to process 500k+ applications per month. This is a 20X performance reduction. How about we pay for performance here...
Front line services were never working from home....
Don't know what you are complaining about. I got my brand new passport (not a renewal) in about 3 weeks after dropping off my application in person and that includes mailing time. If you are complaining about this, then I'm guessing you are the type of person who complains the sky is blue.
NO passports was ever issued from home. All passport agents worked from the office they are frontline like EI. Stop spreading misinformation.
The reasoning is nonsense. In person is conducive to bullying, gossip, and office politics. All while listening to everyone's notifications constantly going off because ppl can't figure out how or refuse to mute their devices. Bye bye productivity, hello misery. Why go back to the past when we found a different way that works.
Well if their devices are going off all the time, then it’s time to have a no cell phone device on at work policy, and no personal calls either. They are at work, paid by the employer to do their work, not to gossip. If that’s the kind of work environment you work in, the supervisor needs to be sent home for not doing his/her job !! No wonder service is poor !
Oh no 3 days a week
R u kidding me
Get a real job
Loyal public servants. They would probably do it without the pay and benefits
5 days a week sounds more of a normal work week at the office to me unless they work part time.
Show up for work or else we assume you have abandoned your employment. Come in or you are fired. Oh yes, you can bring a Doctor's note.
Yep.
Why don't they have their own desk? This is not very productive.
Did the public sector employees work from home before pandemic.
It shouldn’t be affecting the workers that had remote work contracts before the pandemic
@@user-fl3sr2kh5cyes, it should, the employee determines where and when employees work, not the employees. And it should be 5 days a week in the office, not 3 days a week
Since Liberals took power in 2015 number of public employees increased over 40%. Perhaps work from home has something to do with it.
Did you not get your COVID check on time? Just remembers that was done by employees working from home.
@@jayd6098No covid cheque here
Employees increased but not the services....
Quebec has everything to do with it.
@@jayd6098 I didn't get the check, contrary to thousands of public employees who were receiving CERB in addition to their regular employment pay.
The employer wants you to work in the office That's where you go if you want to decide where and when you want to work that's called self-employment try it out it's not as easy as it sounds
100% you're stuck in a job that has never offered work from home.
Except the employer agreed on two days in the contract you can’t change it.
@@jumbome74202 days for foreseeable future … and has the possibility to change
Working two days a week……that tells me their position isn’t needed at all. Let’s vote in the conservatives and get rid of big government.
This is going to cost the tax payer. The government can’t ignore what they agreed upon
How? Actually, it could save the tax payer. Less maintenance of offices. Less sick leave.
@@lutesjay what ?
@@lutesjaywouldn't more workers going to the office meaning more office maintenence?
@@lutesjayWhat? Every single one of these 🐖🐖🐖🐖will bill the taxpayer thousands of dollars per year to sit on their 🫏at home.
Let’s be real. We all know many remote workers (not all) slack off when they work from home.. increase productivity that matches to pre pandemic then we can consider 2 days a week.
Working from home works quite well. There’s really no justification for this except to say, “because we said so.” Not exactly solid reasoning.
Well, you’re not the employer, that is reason enough !
How shocking the government not keeping their promises lol!
Oh the horror.
What a bunch of whiny, entitled brats...
It’s wild.
100% you're stuck in a job that has never offered work from home.
@MrBobbyBrown2006 I'm self employed running a medium sized Civil Construction company. This type of entitlement is displayed by our civil servants is rather disgraceful. The woman in this interview quite literally stated that "switching desks" and "other people's garbage at the desks" is a justification for continuing remote work... anyone who can't see through this facade is either incredibly lazy, wilfully ignorant or both.
If there not willing to go to work find ones who will
I am a public servant Have been working from the office 5 days a week since WEEK 2 of the start of the pandemic, which is over for all intents and purposes. Get the rest of the public service back five days a week too, and stop listening to Union leadership. I'm all for flexibility in work arrangements, but the current state is ridiculous, IMHO.
Lots to otherwise unpack here BUT why don’t we just let the work from home option stay and become normalized? It benefits the hiring practices to be nationwide as opposed to region specific and also will free up the offices to be remodelled into housing as proposed.
is there perhaps a reason the liberal govt wants them back in office?
@@nickyalousakis3851 hard to say. It would honestly make more sense to push for a full time return to be sort out issues of space, tentative scheduling and reporting. A hybrid model at 40/60 is arguably the worst mandate choice that can be made.
@@zserbs2326 -- agree. a full time return would work. a partial won't as the won't will complain.
i want a gvoerment job where i do not work and get paid plez..
Then go apply.
guy across the street works for the cra see him working around the yard during the day
Public service should be setting the standard for benefits and work-life balance so that other Canadians can have the same benefits and treatment.
The private sector should never be setting the standard.
The public service is the fraud sector.
wrong wrong and wrong.
Private sector pays taxes, public sector drains them. Public sector employees should be monitored like amazon workers and be audited by an entity like the bobs from office space. No public sector unions, they destroy accountability and waste tax dollars. Why should the taxpayers (private sector) be on the hook for pensions for useless administrators with no actual developed, marketable skills. Have any of our services improved in the last 15 years or has bloated administration and bureaucracy destroyed productivity.
@@superironmanWell said 👍👍👍👍👍👍👍👍👍👍
Then I’d love to see you self employed with 200 plus employees telling you how to run your business. Let’s see how long you’ll stay in business.
Government is the employer they say what employees do.
Taxpayers is the governments employer we say what they do.
We say 5 days a week get over yourselves go to work or stay home permanently!!!
Union malcontents... quit if you don't want to work!!!! Already overpaid, underworked have better benefits!!!!
Really hard to feel sorry for our under worked Federal civil servants.
I literally had to check the video post date again, I thought this was from last year, seriously 3 days/week in September? This should be implemented ASAP
So work from home means nothing eh
Special allowance was made during a pandemic, which is OVER NOW. Employer requires return to former conditions. Discussion over. It is not a negotiation.
Your name says it all. 😂
3 days a week.....5 days or you have quit, period
Two days is what the government agreed on. Don’t know how a contract works eh
Not a the coldest beer in the fridge, are we?
@@jumbome7420your a troll 😂
The tail does not wag the dog!!!
They should be at work 5 days a week. That’s what we pay them for. I’m tired of calling a government office number and hearing children in the background.
Exactly. Sometimes you can't even hear the person on the phone because of the screaming kids in the background.
I personally perform my work better at home since there is less distractions. PLUS, isn’t there a big push to go green and reduce emissions; I cut my driving by 60% since working from home. Also, didn’t the government just say that they wanted to reduce their footprint and sell off hundreds of buildings for affordable housing?
Can’t see how all my points are wrong? Sounds more like jealousy to me.
There is a very simple solution to the problem of public employees not wanting to return to the office.
The solution is called Pierre Polievre, and it’ll be very heart warming to see large numbers of these utterly useless civil servants entering the private sector job market, where ridiculous demands are not quite as tolerated.
Also, I will reveal my conservative badge here too in case you think there’s a political angle or ideology I’m holding with this perspective. I’m all about small government.
I'm all for massively slashing the size of the public sector, but this work from home stuff is nonsense. If the tools of your job are a computer and internet, there's no reason why someone can't work from home.
@@dillonhillieras an employer you are wrong... collaboration and ability to monitor are important...plus the tail does not wag the dog!!!
@@user-zx9hs7gx4i There are ways of monitoring over the internet, please don't be this dumb.
Large corporations do this all the time - and when you're as capitalistic and prophit driven as they are, you'd better believe performance metrics matter.
They should be working from home 5-7 days a week because it's tax season and be thankful for it.
I'd much rather my tax dollars being to something other than making sure a bunch of civil servants are comfy in their brand new office spaces. F**k that
Productivity....
Very dedicated!!! Lol....invented the weekend flu!!!!
What a soft interview.
They need to be in office 5 days a week. Period.
Why?
To bad the government agreed on only two
@@dillonhillier
Because workers need supervision .
Workers demanding to work from home should be given the attention it deserves….zero.
No accountability as it is….
jealousy mostly
@@Christian-wr4ge
Yup.
Short work weeks, work from home, full benefit package, defined benefit pension, earns more than anyone else in that work class.
Now they can stay home without supervision to continue crappy service.
It’s typical of public service unions.
Never happy yet gets more than anyone else.
They should be in the office full time
Just when you thought this country couldn't get any more pathetic.
Get the lazy bunch to get work five days a week or fire them. Your four year paid holiday is over….
100% you're stuck in a job that has never offered work from home.
@@MrBobbyBrown2006Yea.. we are.. Join the real world
@@MrBobbyBrown2006 correct. 42 years and never worked from home.
lol the government agreed to two days in the contract. They can’t change it
@@jumbome7420 Just goes to show how over staffed the government is.
Oh the poor dear civil servants !
LAYOFFS NOW! These privileged children need to get a job in the public sector!
Cough PRIVATE SECTOR cough
@@t-rev2923 you mean what i know.
@@dougmicheals6037 I got you 😉
Not returning to work is not a layoff solution. If you don’t show up for work 5 days a week at the office, you’re fired !! Layoff would give them EI benefits.
Back to office is another way for them to do a "resource action" without doing a resource action, or having to pay severance to the employees because then they just say the employee quit so they get no severance OR employment insurance!
It’s not anything other than get back to work in the office 5 days a week because I’m telling you to, I’m the employer, I run this office, your the worker and do as I say. You want to be a boss, go for it !
The government has a big opportunity to save potentially billions on real estate, office rentals, maintenance, etc... etc... anyone who doesn't see that is simply bitter. Also when speaking of the environment and reducing emissions, why force thousands of vehicles on the streets polluting our air for jobs that can be done from anywhere in the world? It seems to contradict everything they are campaigning for. 🤷🏻♂️
If these jobs can be done from anywhere in the world, then why not offshore them to places where wages are dramatically lower than in Canada. What do I care where some lame bureaucrat is from?
😂
All that SAVED money you speak of will be BILLED back by these lumps because now their HOMES will be seen as their places of "business".
They will bill the TAXPAYER to pay for their homes maintenance, office supplies etc.
You have ZERO idea what you're talking about.
@joemadden4160 you might want to read a little on the Canadian tax laws because you, sir, clearly have no idea. You clearly also have no idea of the exuberant overcharge the gov. pays for office supplies, rental and maintenance. The wasted money in order to retain fiscal budgets etc.. etc... problem with today is that folks think with emotion versus logic. Use logic, it'll make alot more sense 😉
You’re obviously a federal worker working from home.
Taxpayer prerogative, subject to requirements. You work for our purpose, at our leisure. You were hired from an office, you can be fired from an office. Go ahead and shop your French bilingual talents amongst the other 492,000,000 NAFTA members, test the demand for them😆
This whining is not helping your case.
lol 😂 they have to go back to the office and sit beside a stranger, pay $25 for parking, $20 for lunch… or have to take transit (more strangers, the smelly poor kind), don’t forget to take a soggy sandwich with you!
How many of these women are going to get knocked up this weekend 😂 we will see how many go on maternity leave!
Hilarious. Get paid to strum the guitar, go on hikes etc. Talk with contractors for the CRA & there walking the streets. What a joke.
I can hear their kids screaming on the background for those public servants working at home.
The Cat is out of the house the Mice are dancing on the table!
What a joke when work can be done from anywhere ? Who came up with this and what is the evidence lol
I guess you’re a federal worker working from home ?
@@raymondgagne8363 remote from 2013 pre-CV and have had better tools to operate with on a regular basis. Awaiting spatial computing as the next prod. tool lol
Loving vassey!!
We all love Mr Wacko Name.
presumably what has changed is the pandemic isomer so i’m confused. -why can’t you go back to office as before 2020?
I think because they live far away from the office, 3+hours commute.
@@coolbuddydude1not my problem, I want workers at work in the office 5 days a week, I just like most pay for their wages. Too far, get another job just like everyone else when things don’t work out for you.
40 percent more workers and nothing gets done on time now. Pretty nice gig to get paid to work at home and no oversight! Getting paid while shopping at Costco is so cool!
Your public servants, you can’t serve the public from your homes. All physical files, documents, access to government databases without special office equipment being issued individuals is at the government offices. Get into the office.
Computers are being used those days, .you could work from any part of this world,let alone this country.
@@ollieperry8173point taken, so get back to the office where your pay check comes from
"special office equipment" you mean a computer and VPN? Go back to bed grandpa
Go to work
they need to get bnack to the office and 3 dam days a week is nothing. Canadians in the private sector don't get to stay home pretending to work. Either they get back to work or fire the lot
They all moved to cottage country and now are crying about having to actually work.
Funny.
Poor entitled service workers.🤬
You mean poor government they agreed on it
Jealousy will get you nothing.
This is what she is complaining about haha
Public servants are only dedicated to doing as littlfe as possible. Waiting on the phone for 2 hours or more during tax filing season to speak to a representative tells me they really don't care about the taxpayer.
Get your sorry backsides to the office. I don't need your teenager looking over your shoulder at my personal, confidential information.
Or the fat, nosy wife.
These public employees need a reality check, you get paid for 5 days work therefore your expected to BE at work for 5 days, cry me a river!!!
Simple solution. No hot desks. No Zoom. Back to the office for five days a week. Then there is no need to sell off government offices. This is ridiculous. What I are my taxes paying for. This government is a joke.
You want your taxes going to government buildings 🤔
So, I'm a little confused about this one. You are asking what your taxes are paying for, so I assume that you either would like to be taxed less, or for your tax dollars to be spent more effectively or efficiently. So then why is it that right now, your demand is that the government spend more of your money less effectively? Is it just that you hate these workers and you're willing to pay more tax dollars because you think it's going to upset them? If the government is able to spend less money on buildings and office space, it can save you money. I know, that's kind of a weird concept, but it's true. Fewer buildings and offices to pay for does result in a reduction in cost. If there are workers who can and have been working effectively in many departments either from home or under the current hybrid model, does it make more sense to spend more money to ensure that they do the same thing in an office? Is your priority that the work get done effectively and efficiently, or is your priority that your tax dollars be spent ensuring that asses are in seats in specific locations, with the work getting done being the secondary consideration?
@@Eshtocwe were and still are paying for these buildings, so get back to your cubical of office 5 days a week so we can get efficient and adequate service that we are paying for.
@@EuroNationwe are already paying for these offices, what are you insinuating? The government has sold these buildings since Covid, they are not heated, no electricity,…..?? Hope you’re not a government employee, we are in trouble.
Spoiled
Bravo
Contract out and use AI to replace the government workers. Totally useless
If the worker is performing the job properly from home there is no reason to require office presence, except for the sake of control.
The problem is they are not doing their job
@@jeepstuff4004 says you?
@@jeepstuff4004because ypu got the blunt end of the stick? Or because you thought you could get free money and it didn't quite work out like that?
When staff are working from home, how does the company know they’re putting in the hours to earn their wages? They don’t! Performance cannot be monitored either. The Union is on the wrong side of the road on this one.
Actually, performance is VERY closely monitored by several means including, but not limited to, team leaders, managers, consultants, directors, and multiple virtual interfaces that automatically calculate production for each employee based on the completion of tasks in several secured software that they are required to use from the start of each workday to the end of each workday. Higher up position are often not unionized but in no way are they relieved of heavy responsibility of overseeing their employees and ensuring optimum communication between everyone in a given hierarchy.
Sucks to be wrong, it's alright..
We should have been “consulted” before we were forced to return to our work places 3 out of 5 days a week!? Lol. What an absolute joke, these unions need to be shown how we can run the roles the government fills here in Canada, with WAY less bodies. They can explain to their dues payers how 1/3rd of them lost their jobs.
My view is that public servants are extremely fortunate that they don't have to work in the office 5 Days a week. Why do they think they are better than Private workers?
what we should be talking about is our Election integrity. iam really worried ,trudeau is more than capable of rigging an election He knows that he dont stand a chance through fair and free election
Go to work!!!
Petulant children
100% you're stuck in a job that has never offered work from home.
@@MrBobbyBrown2006and proud of it too.
All the problems in this shite country and I have to hear about these crybabies moaning about a 30 minute commute. Get real
I think everyone that works at a grocery store should also work from home. Get to your office you lazy govt workers.
make them go back to work next week why wait until Sept and give them the summer off ....
Oh not not 3 days, crybabies.
How about Fuc&ing 5 we’re their boss and we pay them
Absolutely 5 days a week or your fired 👍
Notice it’s always the women .
😂. Is Karen her name?
Workers demanding to not go,to work ….must be unionized
Capitalism is destroying this country I used to love! It’s time to save OUR☭ country from capitalism!🏴Ⓐ🇨🇦
Well this is an interesting take. This is about the public sector returning to work, has nothing to do with capitalism.
You’re insane.
It's a Russian bot
Then keep voting Trudeau liberals, they already hobbled capitalism so badly that our standards of living have dropped by nearly $6K dollars a year per person.
A distant relative of Karl Marx.
Government is the employer they say what employees do.
Taxpayers is the governments employer we say what they do.
We say 5 days a week get over yourselves go to work or stay home permanently!!!