Canada's Public Service Workers Reach Tentative Agreement, Uncertainty Remains on Remote Work.

More than 155,000 federal government workers in Canada ended their strike after a tentative deal was reached with the remaining holdouts, tax agency employees. The strike was largely prompted by union members’ desire to recoup inflation-driven wage losses and to enshrine in their contracts the right to work from home. However, the tentative settlement failed to achieve any contract terms guaranteeing work from home. The government was offering a cumulative wage increase of 9 percent that would be spread over three years, while the union had been seeking raises that would total 13.5 percent over the same period.