OTTAWA – Federal bureaucrats will be allowed to work from home if possible for the foreseeable future amidst the COVID-19 virus pandemic, the National Post has learned. “Let me be crystal clear, we’ll be as flexible as humanly possible,” said Jean-Yves Duclos, president of the Treasury Board. The new directive from the Treasury Board Secretariat, which acts as the federal government’s employer, will be issued on Friday to all federal departments. Thus, the roughly 300,000 federal employees will be allowed to stay away from their offices throughout the country as long as their job allows it. The directive also throws out the need for a bureaucrat to provide a medical note in order to self-isolate.

Source: National Post March 13, 2020 15:44 UTC