2008-2009 Annual Report

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Public Service Commission of Canada
300 Laurier Avenue West
Ottawa, Ontario K1A 0M7
Canada

Information: 613-992-9562
Facsimile: 613-992-9352

© Her Majesty the Queen in Right of Canada, represented by the Public Service Commission of Canada, 2009

Table of Contents

• Letter to the Minister
• PSC Mission, Vision and Values Statement

Chapter 1

• Opinion of the Commission
  • Context
  • Overall strength and integrity of staffing
  • Issues of concern
  • Continuous improvement of Public Service Commission functions
  • Looking forward: preparing for the five-year review

Chapter 2

• A highly delegated staffing system
  • Employees under the Public Service Employment Act
  • Overall public service hiring and staffing activities
  • Hiring activity to the public service by geographic area
  • Executive Group
  • Official languages
  • Public Service Official Languages Exclusion Approval Order

Chapter 3

• Overall progress regarding merit and the guiding values
  • Overall assessment
  • Access
  • Fairness
  • Transparency
  • Representativeness
  • New method of measuring of employment equity recruitment rates
  • Assessment of employment equity recruitement trends and performance
  • Noteworthy practices

Chapter 4

• A non-partisan public service
  • Non-partisanship in staffing
  • Part 7 of the Public Service Employment Act
  • Political candidacy
  • Investigations into political activities
  • Increased communication needed
  • Non-partisanship in the 21^st century

Chapter 5

• Management of staffing in departments and agencies
  • Overall progress in key change areas
  • Delegation of staffing to deputy heads
  • Human resources planning and integration with business planning
  • Organizational human resources support systems
  • Managerial accountability for results
  • Efficiency and time to staff
  • Collective staffing
  • Measuring time to staff
  • Efficiency measured by time to staff
  • Potential for further progress
  • Top performers based on the Public Service Commission's assessment ?of the 2008-2009 Departmental Staffing Accountability Reports

Chapter 6

• Oversight and accountability
  • Safeguarding merit through a continuum of tools
  • Oversight review and recommendations
  • Audits, studies and evaluations
  • Investigations into appointment processes

Chapter 7

• Enabling departments and agencies
  • Refinements to the policy suite
  • Priority administration
  • Enabling infrastructure
  • Recruitment of post-secondary graduates
  • Recruitment of students for temporary employment
  • Recruitment statistics and volumes
  • PSC-led pools
  • Executive resourcing services
  • Assessment services and products
  • Assessment volumes
  • Tailored assessment tools and services
  • Test accommodation
  • Second language evaluation
  • Security of PSC tests
  • E-testing and assessment innovations
  • Public Service Staffing Modernization Project

Appendices

• Appendix 1A
  • Public Service Commission continuum of tools for ensuring merit
• Appendix 1B
  • Review of Public Service Commission Oversight - Action Plan
• Appendix 2
  • Audit, Evaluation and Studies Plan / 2010 and 2011
  • Summary of audits, evaluations and studies under way or planned for ?release in 2010 and 2011
• Appendix 3
  • Staffing Management Accountability Framework
• Appendix 4
  • Specific restrictions and conditions applied to organizations following results of Public Service Commission oversight activities
• Appendix 5
  • Specific sub-delegation arrangements - summary
• Appendix 6
  • Profile of new indeterminate employees
• Appendix 7
  • Statistical tables
  • Data source
• Appendix 8
  • Glossary

Biographies

Public Service Commission organization chart

Offices of the Public Service Commission

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