Auditor general to study hiring, promotion of public servants with disabilities
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The auditor general plans to audit hiring, retention & promotion of people with disabilities in the federal public service, with a report due in 2026.
The federal auditor general is planning to study the recruitment, retention and promotion of people with disabilities in the federal public service.
Documents obtained by The Canadian Press through Access to Information indicate that the audit is expected to be tabled in the spring.
Claire Baudry, a spokesperson for the Office of the Auditor General of Canada, said in an email that while auditor general Karen Hogan expects to table the report in Parliament in 2026, the audit is in the planning phase and any comment on its scope or timelines now would be “premature.”
Hogan’s office sent a letter to Secretary of the Treasury Board Bill Matthews on March 7 notifying him of the upcoming study.
The most recent employment equity report for the public service says that since March 2020, the number of people with disabilities has increased steadily in the core public service — the federal government departments and agencies that fall under Treasury Board.
But that number remains below the rate of “workforce availability” — the metric used by the government to measure the share of the national workforce that is eligible for federal public service work.
As of 2024, 21,089 people with disabilities were working in the federal public service, up from 17,410 in 2023, 14,573 in 2022 and 12,893 in 2021.
The report also found that representation of people with disabilities among government executives was above the rate of workforce availability. As of March 2024, 9.7 per cent of federal executives were people with disabilities, up from 4.6 per cent in March 2019.
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