BCGEU members in the Ministry of Finance: HST deal

This week, the B.C. and federal governments announced they’ve agreed on a number of issues relating to the Harmonized Sales Tax (HST). Of particular importance for BCGEU members in the Ministry of Finance is news the province has agreed to make job offers to its former employees who transferred to the Canada Revenue Agency (CRA).

The B.C. Government advised the BCGEU of this agreement. We’ve asked for a briefing on the specifics, as they become known. It’s our understanding details of the job offers, and the scheduling of the return of those employees accepting a job offer from the province, are still to be negotiated with the CRA.

In addition, we understand the CRA will not be making job offers to those remaining BCGEU employees (Wave 3 and 4) who were scheduled to transition to the CRA in March and July of 2012.

The BCGEU will work with the Finance Ministry and the Public Service Agency as the negotiations between the province and the CRA proceed. We appreciate this has been a very uncertain time for Ministry of Finance employees since the announcement of the HST referendum results last year.

The BCGEU will continue to monitor this process as it unfolds and communicate with you every step of the way.