Defence Team News - March 26, 2024

Now on the Maple Leaf

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• Hire a specific student to meet your student hiring goals
• Hiring managers: Student hiring for the summer starts now

Messages for the Defence Team

• Messages:
  • MND: Legislation to modernize the military justice system
  • DM/CDS: Continuing the conversation on values and ethics
  • DM/CDS: Data transfer issue affecting CAF members' access to internal federal public service jobs
  • Defence Team Champion for Visible Minorities: International Day for the Elimination of Racial Discrimination 2024
• New informal peer support groups for people affected by sexual misconduct and/or military sexual trauma
• IDEaS seeks solutions to help armies maneuver through heavily-defended minefields (accessible only on the National Defence network)
• Federal Youth Secretariat now accepting applications for the next Prime Minister's Youth Council
• Managers: Importance of taking leave (accessible only on the National Defence network)
• Closing out the 2023-24 Performance Management Cycle by April 30 (accessible only on the National Defence network)

CAF Employees

• Updated: Recourse for harassment, sexual misconduct, and discrimination: filing a complaint with the Canadian Human Rights Commission
• Canadian Joint Warfare Centre relocation project underway

Civilian Employees

• Survey on the Public Servants Disclosure Protection Act (accessible only on the National Defence network)
• Changes regarding the manager and supervisor development programs (accessible only on the National Defence network)
• IT employees: Retroactive pay and one-time lump-sum payment (accessible only on the National Defence network)
• Claiming home office expenses for 2023 (accessible only on the National Defence network)
• Get online second language evaluations in April

The Maple Leaf

• A Glimpse into Op UNIFIER with MCpl Lussier of 51e Ambulance de Campagne
• Breaking barriers and soaring heights: Celebrating women's impact in NATO's Airborne Operations
• RCAF crews travel across Canada in a recruitment blitz
• RMC officer-cadet going to the NATO Chess Championship in Greece
• Fraud Prevention Month: Look out for red flags! What can fraud look like?

Videos

Digital Learning

• Ask me anything: International Day of Pink
• Data for impact series: How to improve data literacy and competencies
• The Torch – The CAF Self-Development Learning Hub: What's new this week

D365 Highlights

• New translation features in Office 365 – Learn how to translate documents directly in any Office application (accessible only on the National Defence network)
• Updated labels for external participants in Teams meetings – New security feature to identify external participants (accessible only on the National Defence network)

The Torch

"The Torch, the CAF's Self-Development Learning Hub, has new content every Tuesday afternoon.

Check it out, save the link, and come back next week - remember 'Torch Tuesday'.

In case you missed it

• DT News on TML - March 19
• DT News on TML - March 12
• DT News on TML - March 5
• DT News on TML - February 27
• DT News on TML - February 20
• DT News on TML - February 13
• DT News on TML - February 07
• DT News on TML - January 30

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