Departments grapple with tracking employee attendance after a year of return-to-office rules

Immigration, Refugees, and Citizenship Canada has only recently begun tracking staff attendance. However, the departments that have been monitoring employee attendance say there is no issue with compliance.
Departments were expected to implement the September 2024 return-to-office directive from the Treasury Board, now led by President Shafqat Ali, but monitoring has largely been done on an ad-hoc basis.

More than one year after civil servants were mandated to work in the office three days per week, and executives four days per week, there is no standardized way for departments to track employee attendance across the federal public service.

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