BCEEA has been providing services and supports to excluded employees in the BC public service since 1975. Whether you are preparing for a career or organizational change, looking to improve your current job, or facing a workplace crisis, we are behind you 100%. As the voice of excluded employees, we champion the issues that matter to you.
Empowering You to Make the Most of your
Public Service Career
Advise
Whether you are preparing for a career or organizational change, looking to improve your current job, or facing a workplace crisis, we are behind you 100%. Our advice and support help BCEEA members make the most of workplace opportunities and resolve workplace challenges.
Dealing with Serious Issues
Our advisors provide one-on-one support as well as referrals to our network of professionals for members facing the following situations:
- Workplace investigations
- Potential severance situations
- Difficult supervisory relationships
- Other challenges
Explore Ideas with Us
Our advisors can help you become a better leader with advice for a range of work situations. Some examples include:
- Implementing HR strategies and dealing with challenging team members and supervisors
- Managing change at the branch and ministry level
- Strategies for managing during times of change
If you are facing an issue not mentioned here, please contact us and we can help determine the best way forward. Our email is bceea@bceea.bc.ca and our phone number is 250-590-9800.
Our Advisors
Encountering workplace challenges is a common experience. BCEEA members can talk through concerns with one of our Advisors. Our experienced and management savvy Advisors fully understand your circumstances and have the expertise and insight to help you find the solutions you need. They will help you understand exactly what’s going on and will provide up-to-date information and advice.
Learn more about the Top 5 issues our Advisors deal with every day.
Learn more about our Advisors.
Access to Other Professional Services
As a BCEEA member you have access to our excellent network of professional service providers including lawyers, pension advisors and counsellors who can lay out your legal, financial and pension options.
Legal Advice
If you need legal advice, we can help you contact a lawyer. Longer term members (6 months) are eligible for legal services reimbursement of up to $750. This support for an initial consultation is often enough to clarify options and alternatives.
Pension Advisors
Our expert pension advisors will review options and provide the information that you and your partner need to make decisions about your retirement. After 6 months of membership, all members are entitled to two free consultations with our Pension advisor.
Career Development
A career is more than a job – your career is the sum total of your accomplishments. Once you commit to a career as an excluded employee in the BC Public your Service, your next decision is: Do I want to thrive or just survive?
When you need additional support to help you realize your career goals, we have a variety of services to give you the insights, knowledge, and tools you require, ranging from one-on-one discussions with our savvy advisors, to coaching opportunities, and learning events.
Career Supports
We help you make the most of opportunities in the BC Public Service.
Whether you’re looking to improve your current position, or to jump into a new career, our advisors will help you develop a personalized strategy, update your résumé, review a job application, and prepare for an interview. If you aren’t sure what direction to go in, we can set up career networking meetings that will help you clarify your goals and direction
The BCEEA also publishes a range of helpful information sheets that
address some of the issues facing our members including letters of
expectations, severance, resiliency and others. For more information,
please checkout the BCEEA’s MyInfo Sheets.
Learning Opportunities
Our lively learning events provide insight, knowledge, and tools necessary in today’s changing workplace. Our learning opportunities help you to create a positive workplace, navigate conflicts, and make the most of your career.
For more information on our current and past learning events, please visit: BCEEA Workshops
Coaching Program
If you are mid-career and poised to reset, restart, or renew your work trajectory, executive coaching might be just what you need.
Executive Coaching helps you resolve challenges that impact your effectiveness at work or more generally in life. Coaching can help you clarify what matters to you and support you to realize your potential, develop news tools and resources, understand your own style of operation, and develop new ideas and options for your future.
Read more in our Coaching Backgrounder.
For members of 12 months or longer, we offer an Executive Coaching program twice a year to a limited number of people.
Champion
How We Champion Your Voices
As the voice of excluded employees, we talk with government about the issues that matter to you, from policy changes, governance shifts and other significant system changes, to staffing levels, workload, and compensation and benefits. No short-term fixes, no public confrontations – just real solutions.
We research and document issues, prepare public reports then discuss and seek resolution for your concerns by working with key players, including the BCPSA, the Deputy Minister to the Premier, and individual Deputy Ministers and Assistant Deputy Ministers. Together we can collectively address the challenges of working in the BC Public Service.
Communiques with Members
The landscape of government is always changing and we make sure you have the information you need to understand emerging issues. We help you unpack workplace issues with our regular Communiques to members. Some of our titles are listed below.
- Performance-based in-range increases
- The Puzzle of Performance Pay
- Dismissal Review Process: Your Voices Were Heard
For more information please visit our Communiques page.
Publications
The BCEEA regularly researches and publishes public reports about the
issues facing excluded employees. As the only collective voice for
excluded employees these reports focus on issues that matter to you,
including some of the thorny issues that affect your working lives.
Examples of our reports include findings from BCEEA surveys of members
on issues such as compensation and classification as well as the impacts
of workload on members capacity to carry-out their duties.
The full list of our publications can be found here: Publications