January 22, 2013

Networking Breakfast hosted by the Joint Learning Program National Capital Region
Linda Iezzi and Alex Roussakis, the Joint Learning Program (JLP) National Capital Region (NCR) Field Coordinators, would like to invite you to a breakfast which will be held on February 1, 2013 at the Public Service Alliance of Canada Building, located at 233 Gilmour Street, in Ottawa, in the J.K. Wylie boardroom. The purpose of the event is to meet each other, re-establish contact and have a conversation as to how we can better promote the Joint Learning Program in the NCR. The event will start at 8:30 a.m. and will end at 10:30 a.m. If you plan to attend, please confirm your presence no later than January 25, 2013, to Linda Iezzi at iezzil@psac-afpc.com or Alex Roussakis atroussaa@psac-afpc.com.

Updates to the Understanding the Collective Agreement and the Duty to Accommodate: Building an Inclusive Workplace kits
There are minor updates/corrections to the Understanding the Collective Agreement kit and the Duty to Accommodate: Building an Inclusive Workplace kit. They include:

updating the Background in the kit introduction to include the Joint Learning Program (JLP) recent milestone of delivering over 2,000 workshops since 2007;
updating the Target Audience in the kit introduction to reflect that JLP workshops are available to all union members (and their corresponding supervisors and managers) within the Core Public Administration;
correcting references to Treasury Board of Canada Secretariat (TBS) policies. (Policies are developed by Treasury Board of Canada (and not by TBS so it was necessary to make this correction.)

The minor changes that were made to these two kits will have no impact on the workshop delivery.