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The Conservative government is facing a showdown with employees at Canada’s tax agency over two hot-button issues for public servants: giving up severance pay, and banked sick leave.

The Union of Taxation Employees stands out as the only federal union that has yet to give up severance benefits for public servants who quit voluntarily. And it’s the only large union that isn’t at the table in the current round of collective bargaining to negotiate the government’s demand to replace the existing sick leave regime with a new short-term disability plan.

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The union, which represents nearly 29,000 employees at the Canada Revenue Agency, recently made its case for keeping severance pay to a three-member Public Interest Commission that was struck after the agency and union hit an impasse after two years of trying to negotiate a new contract.

The government has negotiated deals with all other federal unions to surrender the accumulation of severance pay, which public servants used to receive in lump-sum payments when they voluntarily retired or resigned. It’s now paying public servants millions to cash out what they accumulated before the Conservatives halted the perk.