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Immigration Department continues trend to end freeze on hiring long-term contractors as permanent staff

Immigration, Refugees, and Citizenship Canada staffing over the last half-decade has bucked larger public service population trends; it has grown instead of cutting.

Immigration Minister Ahmed Hussen's department this spring became the fourth to halt a Harper-era policy suspension that prevented long-term contract workers from accumulating hours that would allow them to become permanent employees after three years. The Hill Times photograph by Jake Wright

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BY SAMANTHA WRIGHT ALLEN

August 9, 2017

Contract workers at the federal Immigration Ministry, whose population has nearly doubled in the last five years, can finally again accumulate days towards becoming automatically permanent employees, after an ease-up this spring in Harper-era cost-cutting. Immigration, Refugees, and Citizenship Can...

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