Public Service Commission Accessibility Plan
for April 1, 2022, to March 31, 2025
Table of Contents
Introduction
The Accessible Canada Act, which came into force in 2019, aims to make Canada barrier-free by 2040. This act benefits all Canadians, especially persons with disabilities, by proactively identifying, removing and preventing barriers to accessibility in 7 priority areas:
- employment
- the built environment
- information and communication technologies
- communication other than information and communication technologies
- the design and delivery of programs and services
- the procurement of goods, services and facilities
- transportation
In 2021, the Accessible Canada Regulations came into effect, establishing the rules that federally regulated entities must follow when publishing accessibility plans, setting up feedback processes and developing progress reports.
Definitions from the Accessible Canada Act
Barrier: “anything, including anything physical, architectural, technological or attitudinal, anything that is based on information or communications or anything that is the result of a policy or a practice, that hinders the full and equal participation in society of persons with an impairment, including a physical, mental, intellectual, cognitive, learning, communication or sensory impairment or a functional limitation.”
Disability: “any impairment, including a physical, mental, intellectual, cognitive, learning, communication or sensory impairment, or a functional limitation, whether permanent, temporary or episodic in nature, or evident or not, that, in interaction with a barrier, hinders a person’s full and equal participation in society.”
Our mandate
Under the delegated staffing system set out in the Public Service Employment Act, the Public Service Commission of Canada (“we” or “the agency”) fulfills its mandate by promoting and safeguarding a non-partisan, merit-based and representative public service that serves all Canadians. We do this by:
- supporting departments and agencies in hiring qualified individuals into and within the public service
- overseeing and ensuring the integrity of public service hiring
- protecting the non-partisan nature of the public service while respecting employees’ rights to participate in political activities
- delivering recruitment programs and assessment services
As the agency responsible for supporting an inclusive public service that is representative of Canadians, we must set an example in the area of accessibility. For years, we have helped reduce barriers to employment by taking part in government-wide initiatives, including:
- the hiring of 5 000 public servants with disabilities by 2025 (our agency is contributing by hiring 25 persons with disabilities over 5 years)
- implementation of the Veterans Hiring Act
- the Federal Internship Program for Canadians with Disabilities
- the Employment Opportunity for Students with Disabilities initiative
The President of our agency emphasized in our departmental plan for fiscal year 2020 to 2021 that we must build on our success and hire more persons with disabilities into the public service to promote a workforce of the future that reflects Canada’s diversity. These initiatives are already evident in our own workforce.
In recent years, our agency has made real progress in closing the gap in workforce representation for persons with disabilities and other employment equity groups. The Management Accountability Framework results for fiscal year 2021 to 2022 showed that the Public Service Commission of Canada was the only public service department or agency to meet its workforce availability targets for all employment equity groups.
General
This is the Public Service Commission of Canada’s first accessibility plan. It will be updated based on results, feedback and ongoing consultation with employees, persons with disabilities and other subject-matter experts. We will monitor, measure and report annually on progress and will publish an updated plan every 3 years. We will also make adjustments and improvements based on the feedback received and lessons learned, on an ongoing basis.
We recognize that accessibility is a shared responsibility and that all areas of our agency are involved in creating a barrier-free environment both for public service employees and for the Canadian population.
Contact us
We look forward to receiving feedback, questions, concerns and suggestions on this plan and on others matters related to accessibility. Anyone may contact us to:
- provide feedback or ask questions
- request a copy of our accessibility plan in one of the alternate formats described in subsection 8(2) of the Accessible Canada Regulations
- request the description of our feedback process in one of the alternate formats described in subsection 9(5) of the Accessible Canada Regulations
Our contact information is as follows:
Human Resources, Workplace, and Security Directorate
Corporate Affairs Sector
Public Service Commission of Canada
Mailing address: 22 Eddy Street, Gatineau QC K1A 0M7
Email: accessibilite-accessibility@cfp-psc.gc.ca
Telephone: 1-833-925-5719
Contact: Human Resources Director General
Executive summary
This plan summarizes actions that are planned or underway at the Public Service Commission of Canada to make sure its programs, services, workplace and practices are free of real or perceived barriers. Some of the actions are ongoing and don’t have a pre-determined timeframe, while other actions have a specific schedule for implementation. Refer to Appendix A for action timelines.
The plan also explains the types of consultation activities that we undertook to help develop the plan and to support our diversity and inclusion initiatives.
In fiscal year 2020 to 2021, our Internal Audit and Evaluation Directorate completed a review of our readiness to implement the Accessible Canada Act. The review considered several factors, including:
- actions to improve the hiring, retention and promotion of persons with disabilities
- actions to identify and remove workplace barriers to ensure the full and equal participation of all employees
- governance for the implementation of the Accessible Canada Act
It also highlighted the importance of working toward a culture of accessibility by default. It is in this spirit that this accessibility plan has been developed as a concrete step towards helping make the vision of a barrier-free Canada a reality by 2040.
Areas of focus
The Accessible Canada Act requires regulated entities to publish an accessibility plan outlining policies, programs, practices and services for identifying and removing barriers, and preventing new barriers, in 7 priority areas. The following section describes the measures and initiatives that we have implemented or plan to implement in the near future, under each of the priority areas.
Employment
Vision: Access to employment opportunities and accessible workplaces
Barriers
- There is a general lack of awareness of accessibility considerations in employment
- Managers lack knowledge about accessible assessments in hiring, and their training is inadequate
- Employment documents, tools and resources are not always in an accessible format
People management strategy
Our Corporate Affairs Sector is responsible for developing, implementing and monitoring our people management strategy, which covers 4 fiscal years (from April 1, 2020, to March 31, 2024). The strategy, developed by the Human Resources, Workplace and Security Directorate, includes a pillar for ensuring people management effectiveness which aims to “build accessibility into human resource tools, programs and processes by default.”
To support this objective, the directorate provides managers with best practices for hiring persons with disabilities and for gathering information on employee needs:
- the Staffing Compass, a guidance tool for hiring managers, contains links to documents that highlight organizational diversity and inclusion goals
- training on unconscious biases in the staffing process and on the duty to accommodate
- templates for letters of offer include information on accommodation measures
- an organizational accessibility ambassador provides hiring managers with guidance on accessibility considerations during staffing processes
Employment systems review
During the 2021 to 2022 fiscal year, we carried out an employment systems review of our agency’s employment policies and practices. The objective was to identify potential systemic barriers and recommendations to improve the work environment at our agency for employment equity group members. Two areas for improvement were identified that relate to accessibility:
- language used in job advertisements and staffing process assessment tools is not always as clear and concise as it could be
- offers of accommodation throughout staffing processes are inconsistently worded and not as clear as intended
To address these issues, and remove barriers to employment, we have committed to:
- testing the readability of job postings
- reviewing and modifying standard paragraphs in job advertisements and related tools
- modifying standard paragraphs in communication templates for selection processes
These actions are to be completed by March 31, 2023.
Specialisterne Canada
During the 2022 to 2023 fiscal year, we took part in a pilot project led by the Office of Public Service Accessibility. The project allowed participating organizations to work with Specialisterne Canada, a firm that provides support in hiring people on the autism spectrum or who identify as neurodivergent. The firm helps managers understand the strengths of their employees and implement strategies to help them thrive in the workplace, and to develop more comfortable processes and work environments where employees can feel productive and supported.
During the pilot project, we hired 5 people with disabilities, contributing 20% towards our agency’s objective of hiring 25 new persons with disabilities between 2020 and 2025. We closely monitored the implementation of the project, and we are developing lessons learned to better inform our hiring and management practices for persons with disabilities, in particular those who identify as neurodivergent.
In the 2023 to 2024 fiscal year, we will survey hiring managers and the people with disabilities hired through this pilot project about their views of the pilot and their experiences. This will help shape the next version of our strategy for hiring persons with disabilities and support our efforts to retain employees.
Accessibility passport
In January 2023, we will implement the GC Workplace Accessibility Passport, which aims to address the obstacles that federal public servants and applicants with disabilities face in obtaining the tools, supports and measures to succeed in the workplace. The passport facilitates recruitment, retention and career advancement for persons with disabilities. We will also update our Duty to Accommodate Guidelines to ensure they reflect new guidance from the Treasury Board of Canada Secretariat.
The accessibility passport is a tool that enables employees to voluntarily record the barriers they face at work, the solutions they have found, and the agreement they have reached with their manager to implement these solutions. It also:
- facilitates employee mobility between federal departments and agencies
- supports conversations and promotes collaboration between employees and management
- provides a way to document consultations or assessments about barriers faced by employees
We will provide training to our supervisors and managers on the accessibility passport as well as on the duty to accommodate.
Staffing policies
As the agency responsible for the administration of the Public Service Employment Act, we are evaluating policies and programs to ensure they are inclusively designed. We consistently work to identify and remove systemic barriers in public service staffing and to promote a shift to inclusive design by:
- offering individual coaching/counselling services to EX employees and members of EX feeder groups in the federal public service
- reviewing the Affirmation of Indigenous Identity Form
- providing guidance on employment systems reviews
- strengthening employment equity obligations in the staffing delegation instrument
- revising self-declaration forms and process in conjunction with behavioural insights work
- introducing diverse selection boards in staffing processes
Building cultural awareness and confidence among candidates and hiring managers is central to our work. We are committed to seeking out and eliminating biases and barriers in the public service hiring culture, by:
- launching, promoting and supporting assessment accessibility ambassadors
- promoting a new landing page on self-declaration for candidates
- sharing a video series with hiring managers on hiring persons with disabilities
- using the Indigenous Recruitment Toolbox
- mandating unconscious bias in staffing training
- creating new guides and providing information sessions, advice and guidance on inclusive assessment methods
- sharing the Managers Toolkit for Hiring Persons with Disabilities
- renewing guidance and increasing outreach on inclusive qualifications
Public Service Employment Act amendments
In the coming fiscal year, we will continue to implement amendments to the Public Service Employment Act that reaffirm the importance of a diverse and inclusive workforce and strengthen provisions to address potential bias and barriers in staffing processes.
With these changes:
- all new or revised qualification standards must be evaluated for bias and barriers for members of equity-seeking groups
- permanent residents have the same preference as Canadian citizens when appointments are made through external advertised hiring processes
- the design and application of assessment methods will have to include an evaluation of bias and barriers that disadvantage members of equity-seeking groups, and reasonable efforts for mitigation
- the Public Service Commission of Canada has explicit authority to audit for bias and barriers that disadvantage members of equity-seeking groups
- the Public Service Commission of Canada and deputy heads will have explicit authority to investigate an error, omission or improper conduct that results from bias and barriers that disadvantage members of equity-seeking groups
Federal Internship Program for Canadians with Disabilities
The Federal Internship Program for Canadians with Disabilities is a 5-year national pilot program (running from April 1, 2019, to March 31, 2024) which aims to improve the recruitment, retention and promotion of persons with disabilities.
The pilot program was launched on April 1, 2019, to provide 25 2-year federal public service internship opportunities to Canadians with disabilities each year, for a total of 125 internships over the 5 years of the program. Internships provide Canadians with disabilities who have little to no previous work experience with meaningful work experience and help them develop their professional skills. The internships are open to Canadians with disabilities between the ages of 16 and 64, with disabilities ranging from mild to severe.
The program involves partnering with departments and agencies to review hiring practices and accessibility issues. It also entails developing new relationships with organizations and communities to better reach Canadians with disabilities.
We work closely with collaborating partners such as central agencies, associations for persons with disabilities and academic institutions, equipping hiring managers with the guidance, tools and strategies they need to ensure that interns are fully supported throughout their internships. Interns and managers are also provided with customized awareness and sensitization training, assessment accommodation, as well as job/employment coaching for effective onboarding, employee development and integration.
The program’s objectives include:
- increasing access to employment opportunities and economic inclusion for Canadians with disabilities
- increasing employability for interns, in particular to improve their ability to find long-term employment
- increasing managers’ experience in integrating and developing persons with disabilities in the workplace (including onboarding, integration, development and retention)
- implementing a “learn and grow” approach to develop a proven and repeatable model
- tapping into an underrepresented talent pool
- ensuring a more diverse federal public service, increasing temporary and permanent employment and the retention of persons with disabilities in the public service
- establishing the Government of Canada as an employer of choice for program interns and Canadians with disabilities
An evaluation of the program by our Internal Audit and Evaluation Directorate is underway and expected to be completed in the spring of 2023. Results of this evaluation will inform our next steps.
Built environment
Vision: Move freely around buildings and public spaces
Barrier
There is a lack of rooms and spaces that meet needs such as rest, prayer and reflection in a quiet area.
We work in close collaboration with the real property experts at Public Services and Procurement Canada to make sure our offices are barrier-free, and we consider the needs of employees and Canadians visiting our premises for assessments or other services.
The COVID-19 pandemic and ensuing transformation of the workplace as we transition to hybrid environments have provided many opportunities to take another look at our physical workplaces and identify any lingering or emerging barriers. This enabled us to identify the lack of private rooms for people needing to rest, pray or reflect.
Our plans for a hybrid workplace are developed based on existing data, in consultation with our Diversity and Inclusion Committee, including the Persons with Disabilities Sub-Committee, and are reviewed by the Occupational Health and Safety Policy Committee to ensure that accessibility considerations are met.
We will assess the opportunities to create these new spaces and make sure dedicated rooms are set and communicated to our employees. We will continue to assess our workplaces on an ongoing basis in order to ensure that any potential barriers are identified and prevented.
Information and communication technologies
Vision: Accessible digital content and technologies
Barrier
No barriers have been noted so far.
In fiscal year 2019 to 2020, we committed to ensuring that new systems, including internally developed or procured hardware and software, meet modern accessibility standards. Our Chief Information Officer, who leads the Information Technology Services Directorate, works with the Accessibility, Accommodation and Adaptive Computer Technology program to assess our tools and systems against accessibility standards. The Chief Information Officer also includes accessibility considerations at the planning and development stages, to ensure that new systems meet modern accessibility standards. After reviewing our policies, practices, programs and services, no barriers have been identified with our information and communication technologies. We will continue to analyze these on an ongoing basis, to make sure we address and prevent any potential barriers in this area.
Our Departmental Plan on Service and Digital for fiscal year 2022 to 2023 includes both business and foundational IT projects that will enable us to modernize our systems and services. This includes supporting the modernization of the Public Service Recruitment System and performing technical assessments to ensure a full range of functionalities as well as an inclusive-by-design concept.
We will ensure that projects to support accessibility are identified in our Departmental Plan on Service and Digital for the period from 2023 to 2026.
Communication other than information and communication technologies
Vision: Barrier-free services and spaces for persons with communication disabilities
Barrier
The format of Public Service Commission documents, tools and resources is not always accessible.
Ongoing support
Our Communications and Parliamentary Affairs Directorate is a key player in promoting accessible communications within our organization. It delivered an orientation session to sector management committees on the range of resources available to employees to ensure that their communications are inclusive and accessible.
Centre of Expertise for Accessible Documents
The directorate has also created a Centre of Expertise for Accessible Documents to support employees as they learn about document accessibility. Since fall 2022, the centre of expertise has been providing training and guidance to make it easy for all employees to create accessible communications. It will continue to offer this training until March 2024.
The centre of expertise provided employees with a new toolkit, which includes:
- an accessibility checklist for employees and approvers
- accessible Word and PowerPoint templates along with a user guide for employees
- information and links to free tools, resources, and training, available year-round through Shared Services Canada’s Accessibility, Accommodation and Adaptive Computer Technology Expert Group
- all links to the relevant policies and tools
The centre of expertise also provides specialized training to employees interested in becoming accessibility ambassadors. Ambassadors will receive 4 hours of training over 2 fiscal years as well as continuous support from the team of experts. Ambassadors will lead their directorates in the shift to communication products that are accessible by design by assisting their peers and sharing the knowledge they have gained.
The centre also aims to host thematic training sessions several times a year that will be open to all our employees. These training sessions will provide in-depth information on topics related to document accessibility.
Open government pilot project
In 2022, the Open Government Secretariat implemented a pilot to increase the number of documents considered for publication on the Open Government Portal. Accessibility is a requirement for all documents produced for external and internal use, and the pilot project fosters an accessible-from-inception mindset. The intended outcome of the pilot project, which will run until March 31, 2023, is to increase the number of accessible documents available to the Canadian population through the Open Government Portal.
Procurement of goods, services and facilities
Vision: Ensure purchases of accessible goods, services and facilities
Barrier
No barriers have been noted so far.
Procurement is under the responsibility of our Corporate Affairs Sector, specifically the Finance and Corporate Planning Directorate. After reviewing our policies, practices, programs and services, no barriers have been identified with procurement. As a proactive measure, the directorate has conducted a review of accessible procurement requirements and developed control mechanisms to ensure that:
- accessibility is considered in purchase requests
- all employees can fully participate in requests for goods and services
To this end, Public Services and Procurement Canada has developed guidelines to ensure that future procurement projects include accessibility criteria. We work with Public Services and Procurement Canada’s Accessible Procurement Resource Centre to ensure that the accessibility criteria and guidelines are applied during the procurement of goods, services and facilities. All procurement requests are assessed against accessibility criteria, where applicable. In cases where accessibility is not included in procurement, a form must be completed to document the reason why the department deems it not appropriate to include accessibility criteria as part of commodity specification or why it is unable to obtain goods or services that comply.
We will continue to analyze all policies, practices, programs and services with regards to procurement on an ongoing basis, to make sure we address and prevent any potential barriers in this area.
Design and delivery of programs and services
Vision: Services that are accessible to all
Barrier
Lack of information about accessibility as part of the programs and services offered to clients.
Public service hiring
Through policy direction and guidance, we support departments and agencies in hiring qualified individuals into and within the public service, helping to shape a workforce that reflects Canada’s diversity. We deliver recruitment programs and assessment services supporting the federal government’s strategic recruitment priorities and the renewal of the public service, leveraging modern tools to reduce barriers for Canadians accessing public service jobs.
In fiscal year 2022 to 2023, we aim to support public service renewal by building on a range of targeted and diversified recruitment and assessment strategies, such as:
- updating and promoting guides on inclusive assessment methods, including interviews, exams and reference checks
- implementing products and services that evaluate assessment methods to reduce bias and barriers
- collaborating with our partners from across government and with community-based associations to enable hiring persons with disabilities, Indigenous Peoples, members of visible minorities and racialized groups
- conducting targeted outreach and communicating with members of official language minority communities and employment equity groups, to encourage them to self-declare and to apply to public service jobs
- continuing to implement the Employment Opportunity for Students with Disabilities and the Virtual Door to Talent with Disabilities as well as the Indigenous Student Employment Opportunity and the Indigenous Career Pathways
- launching of the unsupervised internet tests of second language comprehension and writing skills where candidates benefit from an accessible testing platform
In our departmental plan for fiscal year 2022 to 2023, we aim to support an increase of the percentage of public service employees who are persons with disabilities to 9% by March 2023.
Accommodation services
Our Personnel Psychology Centre, a part of the Services and Business Directorate Sector, offers assessment accommodation services designed to remove obstacles presented by the method of testing, without modifying the nature or level of the qualifications that are being evaluated. The Personnel Psychology Centre has specialized consultants who:
- provide information and advice to managers and human resources advisors on assessment accommodation
- recommend accommodation measures for organizational assessments, on a cost-recovery basis
- offer workshops to human resource advisors and hiring managers to enhance their assessment accommodation knowledge
Public Service Resourcing System
The Public Service Resourcing System, also known as GC Jobs, is an online system designed to provide human resources professionals and hiring managers in the federal public service with information and tools to help them fill advertised appointment processes using electronic recruitment. The main purpose of the system is to facilitate the process of recruiting for advertised positions to the public service.
To ensure that modern recruitment tools and services are in place to support a diverse and qualified public service, we are modernizing the Public Service Recruitment System. Accessibility considerations are among the priority features for the new system, and potential solutions have undergone technical assessments to ensure that the new system will be inclusive and accessible for all. The new central recruitment platform is intended to be inclusive by design.
Transportation
Vision: A barrier-free federal transportation network
Barrier
After carefully review of our policies, practices, programs, and services, we determine that there are no transportation barriers at this time.
As a service organization with a workforce, we remain responsible for the safe and accessible movement of employees in the performance of their duties as well as any person coming to any of our buildings. Attention will be paid to this aspect of transportation throughout our offices to avoid any barriers or issues related to transportation.
We will continue to analyze all policies, practices, programs and services with regards to transportation on an ongoing basis, to make sure we address and prevent any potential barriers in this area.
Consultations
Since the implementation of the Accessible Canada Act in 2019, we have been collecting information and consulting employees to identify barriers, as well as developing and implementing measures to eliminate them. This plan was developed based on a variety of information sources.
Review of our readiness to implement the Accessible Canada Act
In 2020, the Internal Audit and Evaluation Directorate carried out a review of our readiness to implement the Accessible Canada Act. In the context of this review, several consultation activities were held to collect information.
The review team met with key managers in the relevant directorates: the Human Resources, Workplace and Security Directorate, the Information Technology Services Directorate, and the Finance and Corporate Planning Directorate. The team also interviewed the Disability Champion, the Chair of the Persons with Disabilities Sub-Committee and other internal and external stakeholders affected by the implementation of the Accessible Canada Act.
The Internal Audit and Evaluation Directorate sent a survey to 897 of our employees and received 338 responses (response rate of 38%). The survey contained both open-ended and closed-ended questions aimed at different groups, including employees in general, managers and supervisors, people who requested accommodation and persons with disabilities.
The review also included a document study, where the review team (which included members of the Persons with Disabilities Sub-Committee) identified and reviewed our agency’s key documents related to accessibility, such as meeting minutes from key governance committees, as well as management and planning documents of the various directorates involved. The team also consulted relevant documents from central agencies and other departments, including the Treasury Board of Canada Secretariat, Shared Services Canada (Accessibility, Accommodation and Adaptive Computer Technology) and Public Services and Procurement Canada.
Employee surveys
We pay close attention to the results from the Public Service Employee Survey every year, and we develop action plans to respond to key issues facing both our agency and employees across the public service.
To gain a better understanding of our employees and to target areas that may not be covered by the Public Service Employee Survey, we also administer an internal employee survey every year: the Have Your Say survey.
Persons with Disabilities Sub-Committee
The sub-committee falls under the Diversity and Inclusion Committee and is composed of volunteers with and without disabilities. It is supported by a champion, who serves as a spokesperson for this community in its dealings with senior management. To comply with the requirements of the Accessible Canada Act, the consultations are to be carried out on a regular basis. The ensuing discussions will help us measure our progress against the objectives set out in this plan.
Persons with disabilities’ lived experiences
We mandated the Persons with Disabilities Sub-Committee to survey employees with disabilities about their experiences. In 2019, the sub-committee carried out a “lived experiences” exercise focusing on persons with disabilities, with preliminary findings reported in late 2021.
The exercise consisted of confidential semi-structured, narrative-type interviews with questions based on the stages of the employment cycle (onboarding, selection, hiring, performance management, retention) held with employees with disabilities, with a few pandemic-oriented questions included.
This exercise was a precious source of information, with participants providing valuable feedback on their personal experiences at the Public Service Commission of Canada. Among the feedback collected, participants said:
- they felt like the agency did not always understand their needs for accommodation
- they considered that the accommodation process is too complex, involves too much information, and is disorganized
- they are sometimes afraid to request accommodation measures to avoid any negative perception from their manager
- they were concerned about the accommodation equipment needed and available for work in “2.0” work environments or even hybrid settings
The Persons with Disabilities Sub-Committee has formulated recommendations to respond to the concerns expressed by participants in the lived experiences exercise, and will continue engaging with the Human Resources, Workplace and Security Directorate and the Finance and Corporate Planning Directorate to consult persons with disabilities and better understand the visible and invisible barriers they face in the workplace.
Looking forward
The Public Service Commission of Canada will continue to rely on these sources to monitor implementation of this plan and to measure its progress. We are committed to respecting the essence of the “Nothing Without Us” principle and will continue to ensure targeted consultation of persons with disabilities.
We will closely monitor all priority areas to measure progress on the activities mentioned in this plan and to identify any lingering or emerging barriers. We will make adjustments and implement new initiatives as needed and will develop indicators to help measure our success.
Progress reports will be published in the fiscal years ending March 31, 2024, and March 31, 2025. These reports will showcase our actions to realize a barrier-free environment and will inform the next accessibility plan due to be published during the 2025 to 2026 fiscal year.
Appendix A: Accessibility Management Action Plan
Area of focus | Item | Responsibility | Term | Timeline |
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Employment | People Management Strategy | Corporate Affairs Sector (Human Resources, Workplace and Security Directorate) | Long term | Annual progress updates |
Employment Systems Review | Corporate Affairs Sector (Human Resources, Workplace and Security Directorate)Corporate Secretariat, Internal Audit and Evaluation Directorate | Short term | By March 31, 2023 | |
Specialisterne Canada | Corporate Affairs Sector (Human Resources, Workplace and Security Directorate) | Short term | By March 31, 2024 | |
Accessibility Passport | Corporate Affairs Sector (Human Resources, Workplace and Security Directorate) | Short term | By March 31, 2023 | |
Staffing policies | Public Service Commission of Canada | Long term | Ongoing | |
Public Service Employment Act amendments | Public Service Commission of Canada | Short term | Beginning of the 2023 to 2024 fiscal year | |
Federal Internship Program for Canadians with Disabilities | Public Service Commission of Canada | Medium term | End of the 2023 to 2024 fiscal year | |
Built Environment | Ongoing activities | Corporate Affairs Sector (Human Resources, Workplace and Security Directorate) | Long term | Ongoing |
Information and Communication Technologies | Ongoing activities | Corporate Affairs Sector (Information Technology Services Directorate) | Long term | Ongoing |
Departmental Plan on Service and Digital (annual updates) | Corporate Affairs Sector (Information Technology Services Directorate) | Short term | By March 31, 2024 | |
Communication other than information and communication technologies | Ongoing support | Policy and Communications Sector (Communications and Parliamentary Affairs Directorate) | Long term | Ongoing |
Centre of Expertise for Accessible Documents | Policy and Communications Sector (Communications and Parliamentary Affairs Directorate) | Medium term | By March 31, 2024 | |
Open Government Pilot Project | Oversight and Investigations Sector (Open Government Secretariat) | Short term | By March 31, 2023 | |
Procurement of Goods, Services and Facilities | Ongoing activities | Corporate Affairs Sector (Financial and Corporate Planning Directorate) | Long term | Ongoing |
Design and Delivery of Programs and Services | Public Service Hiring | Public Service Commission of Canada | Short and long terms | Activities are ongoing, with progress to be measured annually in the Departmental Results Report (next report to be developed in the first half of the 2023 to 2024 fiscal year) |
Accommodation Services (ongoing) | Services and Business Development Sector (Personnel Psychology Centre) | Long term | Ongoing | |
Public Service Resourcing System | Services and Business Development Sector (Business Development and Systems Directorate) | Medium term | TBD | |
Transportation | Ongoing activities | Corporate Affairs Sector (Human Resources, Workplace and Security Directorate) | Long term | Ongoing |
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