The government department in charge of managing labour relations with federal public servants is no longer keeping track of how many employees across 75 institutions are taking time off work under a special paid leave provision made widespread during the COVID-19 pandemic.
The Treasury Board of Canada Secretariat (TBS) says it stopped collecting detailed information from the likes of Canada Revenue Agency (CRA) after seeing a dramatic drop in the leave’s usage last year, but data obtained by CBC News shows a small number of workers continued to be approved for the benefit in the months afterward.
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