Public service staff brace for hybrid rules

Federal employees to work three days a week in the office starting Monday

- ANJA KARADEGLIJA

PIPSC union president Jennifer Carr pledged to keep fighting against the new return-to-office policy for federal workers.

On Monday, federal public servants will return to the office a minimum of three days a week — if grudgingly.

Public service unions will start the week with an early-morning rally opposing the policy. But despite the unions’ “summer of discontent” and an ongoing court challenge, the new rules will still kick in on Sept. 9.

The unions are pledging to keep fighting, even as they acknowledge it will take time.

“We may not win this tomorrow. We may not win this next week. But if we continue to fight, this is the new future of work for federal public servants and for workers everywhere,” Jennifer Carr, president of the Professional Institute of the Public Service of Canada, told an earlier rally on Thursday.