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8.6.1
Guide
September 13, 2025
Employers are responsible for maintaining policies and procedures to ensure a safe workplace. The worker’s role is to follow safe work practices and to report safety hazards and anything else that they believe goes against the legislation
July 20, 2015
If you’re a PSAC member, most of your rights are set out in a collective agreement - a contract - negotiated between the union and your employer.
Each employer has a different collective agreement. Big employers, like the federal government, have several collective agreements, each covering a different group of workers. PSAC negotiates more than 300 different contracts for its members.
May 26, 2014
What you need to know about Treasury Board’s new process
September 22, 2013
One year of continuous employment will be entitled to one week's pay for each completed year of employment. Indeterminate employees will also be entitled to a pro-rated week for a partial year of employment.
Everyone, including term workers, with at least one year of continuous employment will be able to choose what to do with their accumulated severance:
immediately cash out the severance they have accumulated, or
keep their accumulated severance and have it paid out when they actually resign or retire, or
September 22, 2013
Processing and approval of your DI claim takes time. Be prepared for delays.
8.6.1
September 22, 2013
For the first 24 months, as long as you are disabled from working in your own job. After 24 months, DI plan members will continue being paid benefits when they can provide medical proof that their disabling condition prevents them from doing a “commensurate occupation” for which they are reasonably qualified by education, training or experience.