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Departments end ban on hiring long-term contractors as permanent staff

Since Budget 2016 Veterans Affairs has reversed the staffing cuts that created a 21 per cent dip in permanent employees since 2011.
Patty Hajdu is minister of employment, workforce development, and labour. She is one of three ministers under the ESDC umbrella, along with Families, Children and Social Development Minister Jean-Yves Duclos and Sport and Persons with Disabilities Minister Carla Qualtrough.
Two federal departments have opted back in to a policy that makes contract workers permanent after three years on the same job, ending a multi-year approach unions had criticized as unfair to workers filling a necessary role and an ineffective way to create a stable w...

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