The Office of the Comptroller General has adopted two recommendations on staffing made by ACFO-ACAF in an announcement to CFOs this April.
The Assistant Comptroller General Roger Ermuth made the following recommendations in an email:
These recommendations—included in a staffing position paper by ACFO-ACAF in February 2021—are a welcome change to current staffing practices made across the federal public service. We hope this will lead to the attraction of new talent from across Canada, as well as the development and retention of devoted, qualified public service employees in the future.
The position paper published by ACFO-ACAF included a third recommendation that has yet to be adopted: that the employer reduce the number of non-advertised staffing actions and make the rationale for non-advertised staffing more transparent. ACFO-ACAF and the Office of the Chief Human Resources Officer continue to work together on this final recommendation.
We are pleased that the employer has adopted two of our recommendations on the matter of staffing and will continue to advocate for this final recommendation of staffing transparency.