‘Back to the Stone Age’: Union Representing Ontario Professional Workers Files Dispute over Full-Time Return to Office Policy

Today's letters: Lots of reasons why return-to-office makes no sense

Monday, Sept. 8: A former public servant is dismayed at the conditions many workers are returning to.

Union fights Doug Ford’s return-to-office order for civil servants

The union representing the Ontario government’s professional employees is challenging Premier Doug Ford’s order that civil servants return to their offices five days a week in January, which it dubs

‘Back to the Stone Age’: Union representing Ontario professional workers files dispute over full-time return to office policy

A union representing more than 16,500 professional employees who work for the Ontario government has filed a dispute over the return to office policy announced by the Ford government last month.

Union files dispute over Ontario government policy requiring workers back in office full

A union that represents Ontario public servants is taking action against the Doug Ford government after it ordered provincial employees to return to the office four days a week this fall and five days a week next year.

Doug Ford’s return-to-office order is bad for workers

On August 14, 2025, the Doug Ford government released a statement ordering all Ontario public servants to return to working in-office full time by January 5, 2026. This order came as a shock to the tens of thousands of government workers who have been working effectively from home since the pandemic hit in March 2020.