"Dave Bulmer, president of Ontario's professional employees union AMAPCEO -which has 17,000 members - said there have been about 4,500 requests for remote or hybrid work arrangements in the last three weeks."
"The crowd waved flags and chanted, "Remote work works!""
"Mr. Ford's government announced this summer that public servants who were in-office three days a week will be ordered back to the office four days a week starting Oct. 20. On Jan. 5, 2026, workers will be expected to be in the office five days a week."
Thousands of Ontario public servants requested remote or hybrid exemptions after the provincial government announced stepwise increases in required in-office days. AMAPCEO reported about 4,500 exemption requests in three weeks, on top of roughly 5,000 previously approved alternative arrangements, indicating many workers seek hybrid schedules. OPSEU, representing 32,000 workers, urged members to request alternate work arrangements under existing contract processes and challenged the mandate during bargaining. The government ordered four in-office days per week starting Oct. 20 and five days per week starting Jan. 5, 2026. Several hundred civil servants rallied outside Whitney Block in protest.
Read at The Globe and Mail
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