{"id":872430,"date":"2026-08-26T19:02:13","date_gmt":"2026-08-26T19:02:13","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/872430\/"},"modified":"2026-08-26T19:02:13","modified_gmt":"2026-08-26T19:02:13","slug":"report-points-to-falling-satisfaction-among-ottawas-public-servants","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/872430\/","title":{"rendered":"Report points to falling satisfaction among Ottawa&#8217;s public servants"},"content":{"rendered":"<p dir=\"ltr\">Previously, Prime Minister Mark Carney&#8217;s 2025 budget pledged to reduce the public service by 4.5% \u2014 approximately <a href=\"https:\/\/www.hcamag.com\/ca\/specialization\/recruitment\/federal-public-service-sheds-12000-jobs-in-a-year-report\/580296\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\">16,000 positions<\/a> \u2014 within three years.<\/p>\n<p dir=\"ltr\">In July 2025, the <a href=\"https:\/\/www.hcamag.com\/ca\/companies\/public-service-alliance-of-canada\/120864\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">Public Service Alliance of Canada<\/a> (PSAC) said that the job cuts are causing a lot of pain for workers.<\/p>\n<p dir=\"ltr\">\u201cWorkers are feeling overworked, facing deteriorating office conditions, dealing with ongoing discrimination in the workplace, frustrations with the Phoenix pay system and worsening work-life balance, to name a few of the major issues highlighted in the survey results,\u201d said the group.<\/p>\n<p>Rather than cutting jobs, the group said that the federal government must invest in the public services and workers who keep Canada running.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cA strong public service starts with a workforce that\u2019s respected and supported, not run into the ground,\u201d PSAC said. \u201cCutting or capping the public service will worsen many of the issues highlighted in the survey, such as overwork, stress, burnout, workers\u2019 mental health and their ability to respond to the needs of people in Canada.\u201d<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Previously, Prime Minister Mark Carney&#8217;s 2025 budget pledged to reduce the public service by 4.5% \u2014 approximately 16,000&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":872431,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[194295],"tags":[49,48,11232,302780,37538,20739],"class_list":["post-872430","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-ottawa","tag-ca","tag-canada","tag-discrimination","tag-federal-workplaces","tag-harassment","tag-ottawa"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/872430","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=872430"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/872430\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/872431"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=872430"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=872430"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=872430"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}