Re: PFTF Jan 24 2012
Up to 68,000 public service jobs to be cut: report

Federal government spending cuts could chop between 60,000 and 68,000 jobs from the public service in the next few years, a report from a progressive think-tank estimates.

The conclusion stems from a review of three separate rounds of restraint since 2007, and it suggests once completed in 2015, the federal public service could be trimmed to the lowest staffing levels since 2000.

Already, about 6,300 salaried positions are in the process of being eliminated as a result of department reviews launched between 2007 and 2010, designed to save $1.8 billion.

But that is the "tip of the iceberg," says the report from the Canadian Centre for Policy Alternatives. The major impact on jobs will derive from the $2-billion departmental spending freeze announced in 2010, which is only now being put into effect, and the $4-billion Strategic and Operating Review that will be part of the coming budget.

In total, the three waves of cost cutting are intended to yield the government $7.8 billion in annual savings upon completion in 2014-15.

Government ministers have yet to reveal how they will apportion the cuts, but have conceded jobs will be lost through attrition and likely also layoffs.



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INDIANA has already done some cutting. As of October 2011 there are no longer any case workers for Food Stamps & Welfare; it's all being forwarded to the capital. Same for licensing, no more plates or stickers at the local BMV; it all comes out of the capital now.

THEY keep cutting jobs pretty soon there's going to be nothing left.

I've tried several times to start my own biz since the lay-off but THEY make it next to impossible. THEY closed down the local Flea Markets. THEY make it so Small Biz can't live.

THEY are pushing us and soon there will be violence. It's what THEY want anyway so that THEY can implement a total lock-down.

It's BAD and getting worse! And there's no need for most of this CRAP! But it's all for THEM and nothing for us.