I have concerns(!) about the choice of phrasing in Treasury Board President Mona Fortier's arguments for a hybrid work model for those branches of the federal civil service that her branch of the federal cabinet has jurisdiction over.
Also, doubling down on "right of the employer" rhetoric is not helpful.
The civil service needs sufficiently safe workspaces to return
to and, for those who do not or cannot drive,
a sufficiently safe public transit system to use to get there. I'm not seeing that here. OC Transpo and STO must be allowed to return to "mask up!" rules for everyone who can medically manage it or this isn't going to do what the current government is hoping for. And the same requirement exists for public transit in any city that has such services and a federal civil service presence.
Without at least the mask rules back in place, we won't have safe federal workspaces. We'll have superspreader sites. Again.
https://ottawacitizen.com/news/local-news/treasury-board-president-calls-return-to-office-plan-right-of-employer(Yes, there's other arguments to be made for efficiencies, pollution/ecological considerations, savings on government expenditures, etc.. Other people are making those arguments.)
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