Give more accountability to them. A lot of the time it's about the language used, like “consulting”. I had a senior manager in a department say to me, “Well, Crystal, we told you about it, so we figure that's consultation.”
Even the language that exists in the current staffing policies of the federal government allows the employer to do what they want, frankly. There's very little ability for us to challenge that in a formal way and very little formal recourse, transparency and accountability. There are very few formal mechanisms we have in representing and advocating for our members to force the employer to have more open, fair and transparent processes.
Instead, as I mentioned, in all of our departments we're seeing unadvertised staffing being done, with IRCC being at over 85% last year. Regarding considering internal staff, again, the language isn't strong enough for us to have a formal recourse.