Human Resources Overview

The Public Prosecution Service of Canada is a medium-sized organization that is spread across the country with 80% of employees working in regional offices and 20% centralized in the headquarters (HQ) office in Ottawa.

Office Locations

The Canadian cities and building names of the various PPSC regional and local offices are presented in the table and the corresponding map of Canada, below.

Legend of PPSC Locations Map

Legend of PPSC Locations Map

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A detailed chart providing additional information regarding PPSC office locations.

A red circle represents Headquarters located in Ottawa at Place Bell at 160 Elgin Street with 150 employees on the eighth and twelfth floors.

A navy circle represents the National Capital Region located in Ottawa at Place Bell at 160 Elgin Street with 80 employees on fourteenth floor.

A green circle represents the National Capital Region located in Kenora at a location to be determined with four employees with the floor number to be determined.

A light green circle represents the Ontario Region located in Kitchener at the Government of Canada building at 15-29 Duke Street with six employees on the second floor.

A light grey-blue circle represents the Ontario Region located in London at the Richmond Building at 465 Richmond Street with six employees on the tenth floor.

A yellow circle represents the Ontario Region located in Toronto at the Exchange Tower at 130 King Street West with 138 employees on the twenty-third and twenty-fourth floors.

A yellow circle represents the Ontario Region located in Toronto at the Old City Hall Court at 60 Queen Street West with 17 employees with no floor number.

A light purple circle represents the Ontario Region located in Brampton at the Hurontario Building at 76985 Hurontario Street with 51 employees on the fourth and fifth floors.

A periwinkle purple circle represents the Atlantic Region located in Halifax at the Duke Tower at 5251 Duke Street with 41 employees on the tenth and eleventh floors.

A mint green circle represents the Atlantic Region located in Moncton at the Royal Trust Building at 777 Main Street with 11 employees on the fourth floor.

A light pink circle represents the Atlantic Region located in St-John’s at the Atlantic Place at 215 Water Street with 10 employees on the eighth floor.

A blue circle represents the Quebec Region located in Montreal at the Guy Favreau Building at 200 boulevard René Lévesque with 81 employees on the ninth floor.

A blue circle represents the Quebec Region located in Montreal at Place de la Justice at 1 rue Notre-Dame Est with four employees on the second floor.

A blue circle represents the Quebec Region located in Montreal at the Laval Court at 2800 boulevard St-Martin Ouest with two employees with no floor number.

A light orange circle represents the Quebec Region located in Québec City at the RCMP Building at 925 rue 9E de l’Aéroport with four employees with no floor number.

A purple circle represents the Manitoba Region located in Winnipeg at the City Place at 234 Donald Street with 40 employees on the fifth floor.

An aqua blue circle represents the Saskatchewan Region located in Saskatoon at the Princeton Tower at 123 Second Avenue South with 29 employees on the eighth floor.

An orange circle represents the Saskatchewan Region located in Regina at the RCMP Building at 6101 Dewdney Avenue with four employees with no floor number.

A grey circle represents the Alberta Region located in Edmonton at the Epcor Tower at 10423 101 Street North West with 60 employees on the seventh and eighth floors.

A forest green circle represents the Alberta Region located in Calgary at the Bantrel Tower at 700 6th Avenue South West with 54 employees on the eighth and ninth floors.

A dark pink represents the British Columbia Region located in Vancouver at the Robson Court at 840 Howe Street with 49 employees on the seventh floor.

A dark pink circle represents the British Columbia Region located in Vancouver at the Columbia Building at 211 Columbia Street with 10 employees on the second, third and fourth floors.

A dark pink circle represents the British Columbia Region located in Vancouver at the Court House at 222 Main Street with 16 employees on the third floor.

A dark pink circle represents the British Columbia Region located in Vancouver at the Burrard Building at 800 Burrard Street with 69 employees on the fourth floor.

A magenta circle represents the Yukon Region located in Whitehorse at the Elijah Smith Building at 300 Main Street with 43 employees on the second and third floors.

A beige circle represents the North Western Territory located in Yellowknife at the Greenstone Building at 5101-50th Street with 49 employees on the fourth floor.

A light blue circle represents the Nunavut Region located in Yellowknife at the Greenstone Building at 5101-50th Street with five employees with no floor number.

A burgundy circle represents the Nunavut Region located in Iqaluit at the Mivvik Building at 933 Mivvik Street with 36 employees on the second and third floors.

Map of PPSC Locations

Map of PPSC Locations

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A black and white map of Canada with the locations of PPSC offices designated with color-coded circles.

Ottawa, Ontario (Headquarters) – Red

Ottawa, Ontario (National Capital Region) – Navy blue

Kenora, Ontario (National Capital Region) – Green

Kitchener, Ontario – Light green

London, Ontario – Grey-blue

Toronto, Ontario – Yellow

Brampton, Ontario – Light purple

Halifax, Nova Scotia – Periwinkle

Moncton, New Brunswick – Mint Green

St-John’s, Newfoundland and Labrador – Light pink

Montreal, Quebec – Blue

Quebec City, Quebec – Light orange

Winnipeg, Manitoba – Purple

Saskatoon, Saskatchewan – Aqua Blue

Regina, Saskatchewan – Orange

Edmonton, Alberta – Grey

Calgary, Alberta – Forest green

Vancouver, British Columbia – Dark pink

Whitehorse, Yukon – Magenta

Yellowknife, North Western Territories (Nunavut sub office) – Light blue

Yellowknife, North Western Territories - Beige

Iqaluit, Nunavut – Burgundy

Our Employees

The majority of PPSC employees are involved in delivering prosecution programs. Approximately 70% are in legal positions and 30% in non-legal positions. Employees can be categorized into the following key segments:

Organization Structure

The national organizational structure of the PPSC is presented below.

The national organizational structure of the PPSC

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  • Director of Public Prosecutions
    • Executive Secretariat
    • Finance and Acquisitions
    • Internal Audit
    • Supreme Court Litigation Coordination
    • Corporate Services
      • Administration Services
      • Agent Affairs
      • Communications
      • Corporate Planning and External Relations
      • Human Resources
      • National Fine Recovery Program
    • Deputy Director of Public Prosecutions
      • Alberta Region
      • Atlantic Region
      • National Capital Region
      • Quebec Region
      • Saskatchewan Region
      • Yukon Region
      • HQ Counsel Group
    • Deputy Director of Public Prosecutions
      • British Columbia Region
      • Manitoba Region
      • Northwest Territories Region
      • Nunavut Region
      • Ontario Region
      • HQ Counsel Group

Strategic Workforce and Workplace Plan

The PPSC Strategic Workforce and Workplace Plan articulates the PPSC’s human resources priorities and strategic people management decisions and investments to support the achievement of the organizational priorities and business objectives. To ensure our workforce is highly competent, responsive and effective and that the workplace is conducive to achieving success, the PPSC has the following five guiding themes:

Public Service Employee Survey (PSES)

The PPSC is an organization that places a great emphasis on its workforce and workplace. PPSC senior management are committed to ensuring a workplace that is healthy and safe both physically and psychologically for all employees.

The most recent PSES showed some areas of strengths where the majority of PPSC employees like their job, are proud of the work that they do, and get a sense of satisfaction from their work. Positive results were also seen in terms of retention, where fewer staff desire to leave the organization compared to the rest of the public service. In addition, the organization is seen as doing a good job in communicating its vision and goals and supporting work-life balance.

The PSES results also showed that the PPSC continues to face issues around harassment, discrimination, work-related stress, ethics, respect and well-being in the workplace. Other areas requiring our efforts are job fit and development, employee engagement, empowerment and pay issues.

PPSC senior management takes the issues raised in the PSES seriously and is taking measures to address them, as follows.

Harassment and Discrimination

The PPSC has put in place a Healthy Workplace Services contract with Health Canada. Health Canada coordinators create a trusted, confidential, safe space for employees to discuss well-being and workplace issues, including harassment and discrimination, without fear of reprisal. This service has a dedicated Harassment Complaint Unit staffed with neutral and impartial specialists who work within the relevant harassment prevention legislation to manage all of the steps of the harassment complaint process.

Well-being in the Workplace

The PPSC’s Mental Health and Wellness Steering Committee worked collaboratively with employees, management and bargaining agents to develop a Mental Health Strategy for the organization focusing on organizational culture, psychological support and civility and respect. In addition, the PPSC placed an increased focus on diversity and inclusion. The Diversity and Inclusion Committee focuses on examining how it engages its diverse members across the organization in developing ideas and advising on its key priorities such as addressing the representation of women in senior positions.

Employee Engagement, Empowerment and Development

The PPSC has an established a Supervisors’ Network, which connects supervisors from across regions, to their peers, senior management and to internal/external stakeholders. This network supports knowledge-sharing and learning in an open environment by organizing learning events throughout the year in line with departmental priorities, such as diversity and inclusion, mental health and wellness, mentoring practices, performance management, and recognition. It is in part through the work of this network that the PPSC has seen some improvement in performance management and leadership from supervisors.

Pay Issues

With the continued challenges regarding pay for the public service, the PPSC’s Compensation Liaison team works with employees and the Pay Centre to address pay issues.

2018-2019 PPSC HR Dashboard

To obtain a better understanding of the makeup and challenges of the organization, the PPSC HR Dashboard was created to provide a glance at the PPSC over the course of the last fiscal year.Note 8

PPSC HR Dashboard 2019

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PPSC HR Dashboard 2018-2019

Region/Directorate: National

Workforce

Who are we?

956 employees
100% of PPSC
93% Indeterminate
7% Temporary

779% English / 71% English in the Federal Public Service
21% French / 29% French in the Federal Public Service

68% Females – Workforce availability: 53%
32% Males – Workforce availability: 47%

5.8% Aboriginal – Workforce availability: 4.6%
5.4% Persons with Disabilities – Workforce availability: 4.2%
13.3% Visible minorities – Workforce availability: 12.5%

How old are we?

44 years old / 44.9 in the Federal Public Service
55+ : 16%
45-54: 31%
35-44: 33%
<34: 21%

Where are we?

Regions: 80%
Headquarters: 20%

What do we do?

Counsel: 44%
Legal Support: 19%
Supervisor: 12%
Corporate Specialist: 9%
Admin: 9%
Paralegal: 7%

Acquire

Number of staffing actions: 550

Advertised: 100
Non-Advertised: 122
Deployment: 18
Acting <4: 132
Secondment / Assignment: 49
Casual: 66
Other: 63

Do employees feel that staffing activities are fair?

52% Positive / 46% Positive in the Federal Public Service
31% Negative / 32% Negative in the Federal Public Service

Area of Selection

70% Internal
30% External

Types of Non-Advertised Actions

Indeterminate: 32%
Specified Period: 29%
Acting: 29%
FPDP Promotion: 10%

Growth of workforce

2015 / 2016: 952
2016 / 2017: 959
2017 / 2018: 973
2018 / 2019: 956

Develop

Federal Prosecutors Development Program: 57
Articling Students: 33
Talent Management Plan: 24% (percentage accepted)

Do employees feel that PPSC supports career development?

46% Positive / 53% Positive in the Federal Public Service
37% Negative / 28% Negative in the Federal Public Service

Training and Development

Courses Taken: 4061
Hours of Learning: 17350
Unique Learners: 914
Diversity Awareness (Unique Learners): 437

Lead

Supervisor / Management Positions

12% of workforce

Do employees have confidence in senior management?

63% Positive / 58% Positive in the Federal Public Service
23% Negative / 24% Negative in the Federal Public Service

Are employees satisfied with the supervision they receive?

75% Positive / 75% Positive in the Federal Public Service
14% Negative / 13% Negative in the Federal Public Service

Engage

Use of Awards & Recognition Program

Instant: 66
Formal: 16
Long Service: 40

Do employees feel they have opportunities to provide input into decision that affect their work?

67% Positive / 65% Positive in the Federal Public Service
21% Negative / 21% Negative in the Federal Public Service

Committee Engagement

EE & Diversity: 28
Official Languages: 11
Code of Conduct: 19
Supervisor’s Network: 17
Wellness: 11

Enable

Use of Employee Assistance Program: 5.6%

Reported as Victims of Harassment and Discrimination

Harassment: 16%
Discrimination: 9%

Are employees satisfies with how these issues are resolved?

45% Positive / 51% Positive in the Federal Public Service
26% Negative / 17% Negative in the Federal Public Service

Do employees feel that they can complete their work during regular hours?

54% Positive / 70% Positive in the Federal Public Service
26% Negative / 13% Negative in the Federal Public Service

Absenteeism Rate

Vacation: 7%
Without Pay: 6%
Sick: 3%
Other: 3%

Do employees feel that the PPSC implements activities that support a diverse workplace?

70% Positive / 78% Positive in the Federal Public Service
13% Negative / 7% Negative in the Federal Public Service

Turnover Rate: 11%

Transfer Out 48%
Resignation: 38%
Retirement: 12%
Other: 2%

Note - Although every effort has been made to validate this report, there may be some discrepancies due to system-related issues. Data Source: PeopleSoft, PSES 2018

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