The Public Service's Post-Employment Regime

C. Examples of legitimate cases of engaging the services of former employees

Mr. K is an environmental technician working in weather observation and control. His job is abolished in his small rural community and nearly all its functions have been transferred to the nearest city. He asked for the EDI and received it. However, the department still needs someone for the next year to launch weather observation equipment periodically by balloon in that community. The total work involved is only two hours a day, once a week, for the coming year.

The $5,000 exemption permits this and respects the department's operational needs, which would otherwise require sending another person into the community at a considerably higher cost.
Mrs. B, a 30-year former Public Service employee who came to Canada from Russia as a young woman, took the EDI from her job in Toronto with Industry Canada as an accounting clerk and moved to a small Northern Ontario town. Four months later, a delegation of Russian businessmen is making a three-day visit to that area. Industry Canada is aware of Mrs. B's language skills and wants to hire her to meet the delegation upon arrival, accompany it and its Canadian hosts on their visits in the area, and handle translation.

The $5,000 exemption lessens the department's costs, which would otherwise require hiring an interpreter in Toronto and paying for air travel and accommodation as well as a professional fee.