‘Unprecedented national crisis’: relaxed hybrid work rules urged as public servants stare down tariff response workload

CAPE president Nathan Prier says 'we delivered for Canadians during COVID-19, and we did that working remotely, and our productivity went up,' noting that the country faced another crisis in the coming months.

Canadian Association of Professional Employees president Nathan Prier said 'public sector employees are being asked to come into dysfunctional workspaces, to sit on Zoom calls.'The Hill Times photograph by Andrew Meade

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BY STEPHEN JEFFERY

February 17, 2025

Three federal public sector unions are pitching a reversal of the government’s return-to-office mandates for civil servants as essential if Canada is to successfully weather the uncertainty from the Trump administration’s economic threats against this country.

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