A fundamental change to government employment has been announced by CORA, a commission tasked with leading public administration reforms. The change will increase mobility for some workers, excluding civil servants, and allow layoffs for economic or organizations motivations.
The private sector works with the same principles. Currently, government workers can only be fired for diciplinary reasons, and workers are let go for this reason very seldom. The new reform will allow government human resources teams to be more efficient and rebalance a labor force that is understaffed in some departments and overstaffed in others.
If the legal language around the reform is finally changed to respond to needed updates to government jobs, we could see a sincere professionalization and modernization of the government labor force.
