Government Operations committee  If I may, honourable—

Government Operations committee  If I may, honourable member, employees are allowed, but, of course, health and safety come first. If they were part of a tracing or if there is COVID, no, but they are allowed to do the work based on what the deputy minister's organization and direction is.

Government Operations committee  We'll turn to Madam Tattersall.

Government Operations committee  With long COVID, we're looking at a condition that is relatively new, but which requires, of course, medical certification. Employees have a sick leave bank they can use, but once the diagnosis of long COVID is established, those employees are eligible to use long-term disability

Government Operations committee  Thank you. Absolutely. You're right. The longer an employee is out of the public service or the workplace writ large, the more difficult it is. Here, we are working with several departments, but also doing more with the insurer along the lines of case management and training

Government Operations committee  I agree. We can do better.

Government Operations committee  I'll turn to Paul Wagner for that question.

Government Operations committee  I'm going to ask my colleague Mr. Wagner to speak to cybersecurity.

Government Operations committee  You have a good memory. Yes, things have changed. Some employees are back at work. The last time we spoke, we planned on taking a cautious approach. When we put out our communications, which I and my counterpart the deputy health minister co‑signed, we made it clear that the ret

Government Operations committee  I wouldn't attribute the problems to that. Pandemic aside, I'm sure you would agree that some exceptional circumstances have arisen, and they have created challenges for the public service, the likes of which we haven't seen in a very long time. Productivity is a key consideratio

Government Operations committee  Mr. Chair, I will turn to my colleague, Samantha Tattersall, to take that question.

Government Operations committee  All mandates are being examined. In the examples that you just gave, you gave examples for travellers and for employees, so those are under separate vaccination mandates. The work that Treasury Board Secretariat is currently doing is with Health Canada providing all of the data,

Government Operations committee  For the strategic review, my colleague, Madame Boudreau, can answer. Perhaps Madame Tattersall can also speak about outsourcing. I'll let you determine who goes first.

Government Operations committee  Thank you very much. I can answer that, Mr. Chair. Indeed as a federal public service, we are very committed to taking concrete action to increase the number of persons with disabilities in the workplace, but also making it more accessible and supporting the fact that they remai

Government Operations committee  Absolutely. We are implementing the Accessible Canada Act and the strategy, “Nothing Without Us”. This strategy was developed with persons with disabilities. They developed a road map to increase their recruitment, but also their retention. They're working on several initiatives,