# 2024-335 Pay and Benefits, Attach Posting Benefits, Canadian Forces Temporary Duty Travel Instruction, Temporary Duty Benefits

Case summary

F&R Date: 2025-12-15

The grievor disputed his deployment status being changed to an attached posting of less than one year, shortly before departing to serve outside of Canada (OUTCAN), which negatively affected his benefits. 

The Director General Compensation and Benefits, as the Initial Authority (IA), partially granted the grievance. The IA found that the grievor's attached posting was not linked to an operation, permanent or training position. As such, it did not fall within the parameters of the policy description of assignment, as set out in Compensation and Benefits for the Canadian Forces 10.1.01 and was not eligible to be administered under the Military Foreign Service Instructions (MFSI). Instead, the Canadian Forces Temporary Duty Travel Instructions (CFTDTI) was the appropriate instrument to provide the grievor with the applicable temporary duty benefits while he was attached posted OUTCAN.

The Committee found that financial constraints due to a lack of permanent funding were behind the change in the grievor's position. While the grievor's predecessor was assigned to an operation with benefits pursuant to the MFSI, the grievor was instead placed in a temporary position for the same role, leading to less benefits under the CFTDTI, and leaving him financially disadvantaged. The Committee found that although the grievor's benefits were correctly determined according to applicable policies, the change in status of his position resulted in unfair treatment.

The Committee recommended that the Final Authority afford the grievor redress by considering the possibility of retroactively changing the grievor's position to a permanent or training position OUTCAN with the associated benefits.