Public Service Commission of Canada

The Public Service Commission’s (PSC) Staffing Dashboard provides timely and relevant data on staffing activities and trends that will give deputy heads, hiring managers and human resources specialists a broader understanding of staffing within their organizations and the public service as a...

The investigations function plays an important role in the Public Service Commission of Canada (PSC)’s accountability to Parliament. Our investigations help safeguard the integrity of appointments and oversee the political impartiality of the federal public service. Part 5 of the Public Service...

Ministerial staff are hired by ministers pursuant to section 128 of the Public Service Employment Act. Section 35.2 of the Act allows eligible former ministerial staff to apply to advertised internal appointment processes that are open to employees of the federal public service for a period of...

Hiring activities refers to indeterminate and term appointments to the public service, the hiring of casuals as per subsection 50(1) of the Public Service Employment Act (PSEA) and the hiring of students under the Student Employment Programs Participants Exclusion Approval Order. Indeterminate...

The Public Service Commission (PSC) collects data on individuals who apply through the Public Service Resourcing System (PSRS) for advertisements open to Canadians on the PSC’s jobs.gc.ca website. This enables the PSC to assess employment equity (EE) trends and performance regarding the share of...

Population data refers to the number of active employees in organizations under the exclusive appointment authority of the Public Service Commission (PSC) (employees of organizations named in the Financial Administration Act — Schedule I, most of Schedule IV and some agencies in Schedule V). This...

Since April 2018, all organizations are required to use a results reporting structure based on the Policy on Results, which consists of a Departmental Results Framework (DRF) and a Program Inventory. The Policy on Results sets out the fundamental requirements for federal departmental...

The Annual report on delegated authorities under Part 7 of the Public Service Employment Act (PSEA) which provides information on candidacy requests and program activities for 2021-2022.

This report examines how frequently non-citizens and permanent residents apply for and are appointed to jobs advertised to the general public. It also explores the employment equity representation of citizens, non-citizens and permanent resident applicants and appointments.

This report provides an update as of 2020-2021 and sheds more light on the trends following the implementation of the New Direction in Staffing.

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 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...

This report looks at the use of non-advertised appointments by employment equity group before and after the implementation of the New Direction in Staffing.

This report looks at how frequently non-citizens and permanent residents apply to and are appointed from jobs advertised to the public. It also explores the employment equity representation of citizen, non-citizen and permanent resident applicants and appointments.

This report explores historical data trends about existing public servants who apply to and are appointed from jobs open to the public. It also explores the employment equity

This document summarizes key trends on employment equity of applicants and appointments as well as trends in recruitment, promotions, departures and employment equity representation for the senior executive cadre of the public service. This report also examines movement in and out of senior...

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...

Provide an overview of: - the federal public service appointment framework; - the responsibilities of the Public Service Commission (PSC) and deputy heads (DH); and - PSC services and current initiatives.

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...

"To provide an overview of the organizational reporting results stemming from Annex D of the Appointment Delegation and Accountability Instrument (ADAI) for year 2 and convey early trend indicators (if any). This includes: - Results on exceptions to national area of selection approved by deputy...