The Canada Employment and Immigration Union (CEIU) may be filing a formal labour-code complaint against a federal department on the grounds that it was not consulted before the mask requirement for in-person visitors to Service Canada locations was recently dropped.
Social Development Minister Karina Gould told a parliamentary committee on Feb. 14 that the mandate has been dropped.
“My understanding is masks now are encouraged but are not required,” Gould told the House of Commons Standing Committee on Human Resources, adding that the decision to drop the mandate was made in “a very recent policy change.”
Social Development Deputy Minister Jean-François Tremblay told the committee that the policy change decision was made by the federal Treasury Board on Feb. 10….