Premier Doug Ford’s government is ordering Ontario public servants to work from the office four days a week starting this fall and then full-time in January.<\/p>\n
It’s a change from a policy that has been in place\u00a0since April 2022<\/a>, when\u00a0provincial government employees were mandated to be in their offices at least three days per week.<\/p>\n The announcement came Thursday from Treasury Board President Caroline Mulroney. It says employees of the Ontario Public Service and its provincial agencies, boards and commission\u00a0will “increase their attendance to four days per week” starting Oct. 20 and transition to full-time hours in-office effective Jan.\u00a05, 2026.<\/p>\n The news\u00a0follows on the heels of moves by four of Canada’s big banks \u2014\u00a0RBC, Scotiabank, BMO and TD \u2014 that\u00a0staff at their Toronto headquarters must spend at least four days a week<\/a>\u00a0in the office, effective this fall.\u00a0<\/p>\n It also comes\u00a0just two weeks after\u00a0AMAPCEO, which represents some 14,000 professional, administrative and supervisory employees in the Ontario Public Service, ratified a new collective agreement<\/a>.<\/p>\n The union\u00a0says access to working from home was a key issue in bargaining and the province was “determined to eliminate” flexible work provisions in that bargaining.<\/p>\n Federal government employees are subject to a three-days-per-week minimum in the workplace, imposed\u00a0last September<\/a>. There’s been some evidence since that the policy is not being strictly enforced<\/a>.\u00a0<\/p>\n More to come.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Premier Doug Ford’s government is ordering Ontario public servants to work from the office four days a week…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":69240,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[2],"tags":[43,44,41,39,42,40],"class_list":["post-69239","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-headlines","tag-headlines","tag-news","tag-top-news","tag-top-stories","tag-topnews","tag-topstories"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/69239","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=69239"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/69239\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/69240"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=69239"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=69239"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=69239"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}