Staffing and Non-Partisanship Survey

The Staffing and Non-Partisanship Survey was introduced in 2018 to gather key information on the integrity of the federal public service staffing system. It is a partial replacement for the Survey of Staffing, which ran from 2009 to 2014, and is one of several tools the Public Service Commission of Canada uses to gather information to support its mandate.

This survey is voluntary, government-wide and gathers views from all federal public servants in departments and agencies that are subject to and staff under the Public Service Employment Act as well as members of the Royal Canadian Mounted Police and Canadian Armed Forces who have civilian direct reports employed under the act, on a wide range of staffing-related topics, including:

• transparency, fairness and the merit-based nature of the staffing process
• departmental staffing policies and practices
• perspectives on staffing services and advice
• political activities and non-partisanship
• priority placement for veterans and public servants with priority entitlements

The survey results help:

• identify current and emerging trends at government-wide and departmental levels
• inform improvements to staffing policies and practices
• target efforts to safeguard non-partisanship within the federal public service