Annex B – Department of Justice employee resources for addressing misconduct and wrongdoing
Everyone has the right, and the responsibility, to speak up when a difficult issue occurs. Any employee can report an issue of concern, whether you are in a regional office or a departmental legal services unit and regardless of your employment classification or status.
If you have experienced, witnessed, or been informed of an incident, follow these steps:
Step 1: please speak with:
- Your manager, if you feel comfortable to do so.
- The Ombuds and Informal Resolution Services Office, as a confidential safe space for employees to raise concerns outside the formal reporting channels (See Annex D).
- Depending on the issue and your situation, you may also want to speak to a union representative, a mentor and/or a representative of one of the Department of Justice’s employee advisory committees and networks.
- Executive employees can reach out to the Association of Professional Executives of the Public Service of Canada (APEX).
Step 2: the following departmental teams can help you with the initiation of informal and formal mechanisms, including investigations into misconduct and wrongdoing. Contact points vary depending on the issue:
- Harassment and Violence Prevention: respect@justice.gc.ca
- Breach of Code of Conduct: ve@justice.gc.ca
- Wrongdoing: jus.internal_disclosure.divulgation_interne@justice.gc.ca
- Fraud and Financial misconduct: corporatesecurity-securitecorporative@justice.gc.ca
- Corporate Security: corporatesecurity-securitecorporative@justice.gc.ca
- Directive on Service and Digital: ServiceDesk-CentredeServices@justice.gc.ca
You can also directly contact other Government of Canada organizations for the following issues:
- Discrimination: Canadian Human Rights Commission
- Breach of the Code and PSDPA: Public Sector Integrity Commission (if you prefer not to engage with the Department of Justice’s Senior Officer for Internal Disclosure (SOID))
- Occupational Health and Safety: Employment and Social Development Canada
- Staffing processes: Public Service Commission
For further information on reporting an incident, employees can contact: ve@justice.gc.ca.
Managers navigating difficult situations with their employees may also communicate with the Values and Ethics Office (ve@justice.gc.ca) to facilitate referrals to the appropriate area.
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