This article was last updated on April 16, 2022
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Federal employees are alarmed as the federal departments have to seize another 10,000 jobs in order to adjust with the $5.2 billion spending reductions in the federal budget. The cut down will be stretched over the next three years.
According to the annual report recently tabled in Parliament, 10,400 full-time positions will be swallowed by 2015. David Macdonald, chief economist at the Canadian Centre for Policy Alternatives says this automatically means that departments are slashing 29,600 jobs over the next three years.
Ever since the federal budget was released, departments handed out over 18,000 warning notices to employees, telling them their jobs could be terminated.
“It is disingenuous to focus on the 19,200 job losses resulting from the budget,” said Macdonald. “Those losses are just part of what is going to happen over the next three years. Several rounds of previously announced cuts will also eliminate jobs over the same period.”
According to the budget report, savings are to be stemmed from three streams: a change in the programs offered by the government, a cutback of red tape, and transformation and decrease of back-office systems (the internal services that all departments use, such as finance, human resources, information technology, communications, and procurement).
Harper government is been criticized for putting forward misty details about the spending reductions, mainly on programs and services that are to be slashed. The opposition insists that federal government must offer more details that can be discussed.
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