Union of Veterans’ Affairs Employees cries foul over private rehab contract that feds say will mean ‘fewer steps’ for vets, case managers

The five-and-a-half-year, $560-million contract was awarded in June 2021, but union leaders say it went ahead ‘without adequate input and feedback’ from those on the ground.

Union of Veterans' Affairs Employees national president Virginia Vaillancourt, left, and Veterans Affairs Minister Lawrence MacAulay. The department says there will be no impact on jobs as a result of the contract to Partners in Canadian Veterans Rehabilitation ServicesPhotograph courtesy of the Union of Veterans' Affairs Employees, The Hill Times photograph by Andrew Meade

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BY MIKE LAPOINTE

June 29, 2022

The union representing Veterans Affairs Canada workers is sounding the alarm over a $560-million contract for rehabilitation services that national president Virginia Vaillancourt says is a “contracting out of many of our functions to a private sector entity who does not have the same level of con...

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