# 2025-065 Careers, Compassionate Posting, Joint Personnel Support Unit, Relocation Benefits

Case summary

F&R Date: 2026-05-12

The grievor was temporarily posted to a Transition Centre (TC) in a region located near her family for a period of more than 2 years in order to support her recovery from a health-related condition. The grievor contested the fact that she had not been permanently posted to that region on the 366th day of her temporary posting, in accordance with article 1.28 of the Compensation and Benefits Instructions for the Canadian Forces (CBI). As redress, the grievor requested that she be retroactively posted to the TC effective from the 366th day of her temporary posting. 

The Director General Military Careers, acting as the Initial Authority (IA), rejected the grievance. The IA stated that the time limit for submitting a grievance had expired and that, pursuant to Queen's Regulations and Orders for the Canadian Forces article 7.06, it was not in the interests of justice to consider the grievance.

The Committee concluded that, although the Canadian Armed Forces (CAF) had provided the grievor with appropriate support during her time at the TC, she had nonetheless been aggrieved. In particular, the Committee explained that, in the grievor's case, the decision to maintain her on a temporary posting rather than assign her permanently had had devastating consequences for her, particularly from a financial standpoint. The Committee found that telling the grievor that no medical reasons justified a permanent posting to that region, while subsequently assigning her for a temporary posting for more than 2 years specifically to support her recovery, created a contradiction that was difficult to justify. In addition, the Committee noted that the CAF had allowed the grievor's temporary posting to exceed the maximum duration prescribed by CBI 1.28. Accordingly, the Committee recommended that the Final Authority (FA) grant the grievor retroactive reimbursement of certain expenses related to the relocation of her household effects. The Committee further recommended that the FA grant the grievor payment of the separation expenses to which she would have been entitled during future postings subject to an imposed restriction during a relocation from that region.