Public servants ‘pissed’ over PCO clerk’s call to look at loosening rules to fire them

Opposition MPs say they’re split on whether it should be easier to boot poorly performing bureaucrats, suggest keying in on whistleblower protection.

Privy Council Clerk Michael Wernick suggested MPs look at reviewing the regime around disciplining employees during a June 20 Senate committee meeting, saying the current system is onerous.The Hill Times file photograph

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BY EMILY HAWS

June 27, 2018

If Privy Council Clerk Michael Wernick wants to make it easier to fire civil servants, he should start with the Phoenix pay system executives, say public sector unions ruffled by comments from the nation's top bureaucrat that MPs should consider loosening the legislative rules around booting employe...

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