Morale at Veterans Affairs plunged alongside staffing levels: federal survey
Posted Mar 4, 2015 04:43:34 PM.
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OTTAWA – The most recent survey of federal employees shows Veterans Affairs Canada is an increasingly unhappy place with plunging morale and a frazzled workforce.
The evaluation, conducted every three years for the federal Treasury Board, and asks dozens of questions ranging from satisfaction with equipment all of the way up to workplace harassment.
The number of staff who believe the quality of their work has suffered because of either fewer resources — or a lack of stability within the department has more than doubled since 2008.
The dissatisfaction level is also between 1.5 and two times the rate of the overall federal civil service.
Surveys conducted every three years since 2008 show a steady decline in employee satisfaction that appears to mirror Conservative job cuts in Veterans Affairs that began in 2011.
