Further to our notification of April 20 that Canada’s federal workers went on strike, the federal government and the union representing Canada’s federal public workers (known as PSAC), have reached a settlement. The vast majority of public workers are back at work – there is a subset of the union who remain on strike, but those are workers specifically in the Canada Revenue Agency. As such, federal workers in the departments relating to immigration (e.g. IRCC) are back at work, and ordinary processing should continue. Of course, there was already a bit of a backlog in immigration matters, and there may be a bit of an additional backlog for the just under 2 weeks that the strike lasted, but things are as back to ‘normal’ as they can be at this juncture. It should also be noted that the settlement reached is technically ‘tentative’, subject to a union vote, but all indications are that the settlement will be ratified, and the workers will remain at their jobs.
The information in this article is for general purposes only, and not intended as legal advice for any particular situation.