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The actual process to go from mil to civil service is pretty easy, and there is even incentives to hire veterans. Medically released CAF members are on the highest priority list, and normal retirements/releases are a secondary tier but still on a priority hire list. If you find a qualified candidate you can effectively directly hire them (after jumping through HR hoops).I've always been cognisant of the UoS provisions and the conflicting CHRC and Charter challenges to that. I always thought that UoS was one of those self evident things but give a bunch of legislative draftsmen and some lawyers a minute and they can set common sense on its head.
At the same time being able to keep wounded veterans or even veterans that DND has simply invested time and money on available to the system without undermining UoS would also be of value. I would have thought of some time of transfer system to the Civil Service with flow through benefits wouldn't be impossible to make happen. Whether they are employed back with DND or elsewhere is immaterial.
That reminds me though when I retired in 2009, I thought that the number of civil servants that I knew of on "stress leave" seemed pretty high. I'm not thinking of veteran PTSD here, I'm thinking civil servants in cubicles. How's that going these days?
The issue is more the lack of SWE, lack of HR people to process the hires, and in some cases, credentialism. You can do the same job in the CAF, but maybe not be able to do it as a public servant if the position requires something like an engineering degree (because of the classification). Which is weird, because you can get a P.Eng without it with equivalent experience.
Still a fair number of people on stress leave, and more that should be on stress leave, but when you are one person with the workload of 3-4, with no hope for a change like a posting, that grinds people down over time. I'm sure there are fakes, but have met a lot of dedicated PSs, who genuinely are passionate about doing their job properly so that the CAF has the tools they need, but when you can't buy spares, get contracts in place or otherwise do your job because of lack of funding, bureaucratic hurdles, multi-department empire building, etc that makes the overwork even worse.
I think the term for it is 'moral injury', but burnt out is burnt out, regardless if you are on a front line unit or in a cubicle..