We strongly denounce Immigration, Refugees and Citizenship Canada for its lack of consultation in announcing that IRCC will be stopping the clock on term rollovers to indeterminate status effective Oct 31.
“Sending us an eleventh-hour confidential message on such a serious labour issue is not consultation – it’s an insult,” said Rubina Boucher, National Executive Vice-President, Canada Employment and Immigration Union (CEIU).
IRCC is suspending the accumulation of time for term employees to work toward indeterminate status, effectively imposing significant barriers for term employees to obtain job security.
It is our understanding that this impacts some 3,345 term employees at IRCC – the majority being equity-deserving members.
“This will hugely impact our members along with morale at a time when processing immigration requests is of vital importance for the Canadian economy and society,” said Helen King, CEIU National Vice-President, Immigration, Refugees and Citizenship Canada.
CEIU is also concerned about the job security of term employees and what potential contract extensions will look like.
“This is part of a culture of precarity that is spreading in the federal government workforce, as our members now have to work from one term contract to the next,” Boucher said. “We need to move toward a culture of stable, secure employment to provide a high level of public service. Instead, we’re getting more precarity and instability.”
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