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Table of Contents
Part 3 Human Resource Management
3.1 Employment Equity
3.2 Staffing
3.2.1 Exempt staff in a Minister’s office and a Minister’s of State office
3.2.2 Status of exempt staff after a change in Cabinet
3.2.3 Contracting for professional or temporary help services
3.2.4 Other staffing issues
3.4.1 Compulsory plans
3.4.2 Automatic plans (Government paid) for those exempt staff positions whose salary maxima are equivalent to the Public Service EX occupational group.
3.4.3 Optional plans (member-paid)
3.5.1 Vacation leave
3.5.2 Cashing out of vacation leave
3.5.3 Statutory leave
3.5.4 Election leave
3.5.5 Other leave
3.6 Departmental staff assigned to Ministers' and Ministers’ of State offices
3.7.1 Severance pay and transferring-in previous service
3.7.2 Separation pay
3.7.3 Amount payable
3.7.4 Reimbursement
3.7.5 Exempt staff entitlements when a Minister or a Minister of State ceases to be a Minister or a Minister of State
3.7.6 Ministers’ exempt staff priority entitlements
3.7.7 Employment assistance: outplacement services
4.1 Source of funds
4.2 Transferring funds
4.3 Accountability
4.4 Accounting for expenditures charged to Ministers' and Ministers' of State budgets
Part 5 Office Accommodation and Supplies
5.1.1 Introduction
5.1.2 Departmental Headquarters Offices
5.1.3 Ministers' Regional Offices (MRO's)
5.2 Office Furniture and Furnishings
5.3 Office Equipment and Supplies
5.4 Stationery and printed media
6.1.1 Travel expenses
6.1.2 Reimbursement for travel expenses
6.1.3 Travel expenses - Ministerial staff
6.2 Executive vehicles for use by a Minister or a Minister of State
6.2.1 Official use
6.2.2 Personal use
6.2.3 Selecting an executive vehicle
6.2.4 Maintaining executive vehicles
6.3 Air travel
6.4 Rail travel
6.5 International travel (government business)
6.6 International travel (private)
6.7 Ministers’ and Ministers' of State spouses
6.8 Travel by Members of Parliament with or on behalf of a Minister
6.9 Transportation allowance for staff overtime
7.2 Employer-employee relationships
7.3 Fee guidelines
7.4 Former government officials
7.5 Temporary help services
7.6 Proactive Disclosure of Contracts over $10,000
Part 8 Services and Hospitality
9.1 Official Languages
9.2 Background
9.3 Service to the Public
9.4 Language of Work
9.5 Equitable participation
9.6 Support mechanisms
Part 10 Information Management
Appendix A - Exempt staff position structure
Appendix B - Current provisions - salaries for exempt staff
Appendix C - Budgets and staff complements for Ministers and Ministers of State
Appendix E - Information on the Ministers' Staff Priority - The Public Service Commission of Canada
Appendix G - Letter from Minister of Finance to cabinet ministers, December 1963
