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Presentation of the results of the 2021 Staffing and Non-Partisanship Survey for Federal Public Servants who are members of an employment equity group (except persons with disabilities)

The SNPS is an important tool for understanding public servants' perceptions of the public service staffing system as well as their awareness of their legal rights and responsibilities regarding political activities. The information gathered in the survey will be used to identify current and...

The Public Service Official Languages Exclusion Approval Order sets out the situations whereby, for non-imperative appointments, public servants may be exempted from the obligation of meeting the official language requirements of their bilingual positions within a specific timeline. On a yearly...

Affirmation of Indigenous Identity Form

The review of the Priority Entitlements Program was carried out as part of the Public Service Commission of Canada’s 2021–23 Internal Audit and Evaluation Plan. Covering the period of July 2015 to May 2021, its goal was to measure the effectiveness of and satisfaction with the services, tools and...

The Public Service Commission of Canada (PSC) is responsible for promoting and safeguarding a merit-based, representative and non-partisan federal public service. As part of its oversight role, it undertakes investigations as well as audit and research activities to assess the integrity of the...

The Survey of Staffing (SOS) is a tool that the Public Service Commission of Canada (PSC) uses to monitor employees’ perceptions of staffing activity within the federal public service and to gauge awareness of their legal rights and responsibilities regarding political activities.

The Staffing Audit Tool is a Microsoft Access database application designed and developed by the staff of the Public Service Commission’s audit function. The database application was used to manage and analyze data from the compliance assessment of appointment records. The information was...

As part of the pilot System-Wide Staffing Audit (pilot audit), a questionnaire was administered to sub-delegated persons and staffing advisors associated with the sample of 386 appointments across the 25 organizations participating in the pilot audit. The purpose of the questionnaire was to...

The overarching goal of this study was to determine current gaps in the promotion rates of employment equity groups when compared to their counterparts, and to assess progress in promotion rates of employment equity groups over the past 30 years. The study relied on survival analysis techniques...