B.C. Ombudsperson Jay Chalke has revealed that for the past decade, dozens of public service positions intended for the career development of public servants were wrongly awarded to government appointees.
The report, as detailed by Global News, highlights “systemic mismanagement” within the B.C. Public Service Agency, which allowed government appointees to apply for temporary positions meant exclusively for “regular public servants.”
CTV News reported that in a briefing Monday, Chalke said the Public Service Agency, “has a written policy that, at face value, precludes (order-in-council) appointees from applying for internal temporary assignments in the public service […] The stated rationale for the policy was to preserve these temporary assignment opportunities for regular public servants in order to support their career development.”
