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Government restructuring and program reviewMain restructuring initiatives by Agencies and Departments
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• The new Canada Border Services Agency has been created under Schedule 1, Part 1 of the PSSRA, which limits the scope of the current CCRA and transfers workers who do enforcement work from CCRA, CIC, and CFIA to the new agency as of Dec 12, 2003. • Employees engaged in activities related directly to the discharge of passenger and initial import inspections were transferred. • CEUDA, Agriculture, CEIU members will be impacted by this reorganization • Agriculture has estimated that 92 members will be transferred • CEUDA will have approximately 7200 members transferring • CEIU will have approximately 800 - 1000 members transferring • CIC will establish a new Admissibility Branch, which is responsible for the enforcement activities that remain within CIC. These include the admissibility policy, visa policy, international migration issues related to admissibility and quality assurance for case processing abroad and in Canada. • Until the immigration functions delivered at the ports of entry (with their dual mandate of risk assessment and benefits issuance) have been studied thoroughly to determine to which organization they should report, these functions will remain at CIC. The Ports and Border Directorate of CIC will continue to support the officers delivering the program at ports of entry. • The Employer is reporting that Support Staff requirements will be evaluated and transferred at a later date. • The government says that work locations will remain unchanged. • Concerns around future multi-tasking and possible future workforce adjustment of Border Agency representatives have been raised. • A new Agency for Public Service Human Resources Management has been hived off from Treasury Board. A number of units now in the Human Resources Management Office will move to a new Public Service Human Resources Management Agency within Privy Council. • These include the Human Resources Modernization Implementation Secretariat, Policy and Planning Sector, Organization and Classification Sector, Leadership Network (except for the Youth Internship Program), Integration Division, Employment Equity Division, Official Languages Branch and the Office of Values and Ethics. • The Labour Relations and Compensation Operations Sector, the Pensions and Benefits Sector, Risk Management, Compensation Planning, Joint Career Transition Committee and a portion of the HRM Integration Division will remain in Treasury Board. • We don’t know for sure, but although these workers are all currently excluded, in line with the newly passed HR modernization legislation, some of these workers should become our members. • The current Chief Information Officer section in Treasury Board will be transferred immediately including GOL, Service Improvement Delivery, Organizational Readiness, Communications and Public Relations. • This transfer should involve approximately 70 – 100 employees. • The government says that after discussions with the public service unions, responsibility for collective bargaining and other staff relations activities will be transferred from the Treasury Board Secretariat to Public Works and Government Service Canada. • Those discussions have not happened yet and no move is anticipated until after this round of Collective Bargaining • A new Department of Public Safety and Emergency Preparedness has been created from what used to be Solicitor General • Integrate into a single portfolio the core activities of the existing Solicitor General portfolio that secure the safety of Canadians and protect Canadians against Natural Disasters • The new Canadian Border Services Agency • The National Crime Prevention Centre (from Justice) • The Office of Critical Infrastructure protection from DND (about 250 -260 UNDE members) • The signatory and referral powers, duties and functions
of the Immigration and Refugee Protection Act (Section 77-1) • The government announced it will create a new Canada Public Health Agency following consultations with provincial and territorial governments, to address public health risks and coordinate a national response to health crises. • Although there in no information on this new agency it is likely to impact NHWU members. • Human Resources Development Canada Department is now divided into two departments. On one side we have Human Resources and Skills Development and on the other side Social Development. • So far, no official decision has been taken regarding common services which include: Strategic Policy, Communications, and Corporate Affairs and Planning. However, we know that there is a strong possibility that the Deputy Ministers will choose to split common services. IARMS will have to be split. Until a decision is made on everything, these bodies will continue to service all employees as a type of shared service. • The Call Centre Harmonization at the former HRDC may cause unknown adjustment problems. • The government is reporting that the division of the former
HRDC should not cause too many problems in itself. • Human Resources and Skills Development will be responsible for: Insurance, Labour Market Programming (EPB), Lifelong Learning (HIP), Labour, Homelessness, HRCC Managers (except ISP), ISP in person services and REH's and immediate administration. • The powers, duties and functions relating to the Canada Millennium Scholarship Foundation have been transferred to the new Ministry of Human Resources and Skills Development • Social Development will be responsible for ISP, Persons with Disabilities, Social Development, National Child Benefit and Early Children Development and all Service Delivery Initiatives. Social Development is also responsible for shared services including: FAS, HRS and Systems. • Coast Guard will become a Special Operating Agency within
the Department of Fisheries and Oceans • This will impact UCTE and Environment members • Parks Canada is slated to be moved from Heritage to Environment. • In addition the government has announced that it will close Communications Canada at the end of the fiscal year. • It has been suggested by the employer that those working in specific programs will be transferred with the programs, although those directly employed by the Sponsorship program will be affected. • Between 350 and 500 workers will be affected. • Approximately 300 workers are our members. • 40 -50 workers in the regions will be the most vulnerable • The employer has indicated to the component that the Canadian Firearms Registry will continue to exist. Mr. Martin’s press conference on the 9th of January seems to support this assertion although the question remains as to where it will be located with the government structure • Portions of the Department of Industry including Investment Partnerships Canada, the Trade Integration Directorate and the International Business Opportunities Centre within Industry, International Trade Centres, and portions of the International Trade and Investment Policy Branch to the Department of International Trade. • Portions of Foreign Affairs and International Trade including
the International Business Development Branch, the Trade, Economic,
and Environmental Policy Branch, those portions of the Communications
Bureau and the Executive Service Bureau that support the international
trade policy and international business development including the
Trade Communications Division, those portions of the International
Academic Relations Division relating to international business development,
those portions of the Arts and Cultural Industries Promotion Division
relating to international business development, those portions of
the Policy Planning Secretariat relating to trade policy and international
business development, those portions of the geographic branches
of the Department that relate exclusively to trade policy and international
business development, those portions of Canadian missions abroad
that relate exclusively to trade policy and international business
development, and the Trade Law Division. |