Province to axe jobs

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Province to axe jobs



The Dalton McGuinty government is set to eliminate hundreds of Ontario public sector positions over the summer.
While it intends to use measures such as attrition, a government source said some people will find themselves out of work.
The first notices are starting to trickle out and the pink slips will continue until the fall, the source said.
Those facing job losses are members of the Ontario Public Service (OPS) — people directly employed by the provincial government.
OPP officers, nurses and other people working for provincial bodies are not affected.
In his spring budget speech, Finance Minister Dwight Duncan said he intended to make government “more streamlined,” while protecting public services.


http://www.torontosun.com/2011/05/22/province-to-axe-jobs

Oh oh!
 
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Hopefully the feds will now do the same thing. Start with the thousands of DFO staff in Ottawa that don't do their jobs or even have a real job to do.
 
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lone wolf said:
What savings? Golden Handshakes cost a fortune....
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Well, not even MP's in Ottawa get pensions valued at 100% of their earnings. So if the province cuts the amount of full time employees, and even if they get sweet pension deals, it's going to amount to savings going forward.
 
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Tonington said:
Well, not even MP's in Ottawa get pensions valued at 100% of their earnings. So if the province cuts the amount of full time employees, and even if they get sweet pension deals, it's going to amount to savings going forward.
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Yeah, false savings................"penny wise and pound foolish". $1 for some work beats the hell out of 75 cents for no work!
 
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Hey as long as its "attrition" it will be real savings.
What I'm wondering is how many of those remaining managers & supervisors are going to their pay grades accelerate thus mitigating any realized savings.
 
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lone wolf said:
It's not the pensions. It's the severance packages....
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Yeah, so if all of the employees who leave were working for 20 years, and their salary was $60,000, then they would each get a little more than $23,000 in severence. The government will be spending less, ergo savings.
 
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The government will be spending less on internal payroll and more on private sector contract services who know as much about government services as they do about servicing Skilsaws. I'm not defending goverment paper pushers. Lard knows there is a lot of waste and duplicity in the confusion they create to look busy. I'm suggesting the savings are more likely to come in the people who won't get service....
 
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This is just a sign of what is yet to come. Once Harpo gets his conservative policies in full swing you will start to see mass layoffs everywhere. He has fooled everyone into thinking the economy is recovering while in reality it is still sinking. There will be many federal govt jobs disappear over the coming year and many, many more in the private sector.

Everyone who believed his lies are in for a rude awakening.
 
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PoliticalNick said:
This is just a sign of what is yet to come. Once Harpo gets his conservative policies in full swing you will start to see mass layoffs everywhere. He has fooled everyone into thinking the economy is recovering while in reality it is still sinking. There will be many federal govt jobs disappear over the coming year and many, many more in the private sector.

Everyone who believed his lies are in for a rude awakening.
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um.... McGuinty is the LIBERAL Premier of Ontario....
 
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lone wolf said:
um.... McGuinty is the LIBERAL Premier of Ontario....
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Ummm, so what. I am saying it is a result of a failing economy and Harpo's policies will not save it. Any govt will be forced to find savings as the economy gets worse, so will private sector businesses. Ontario is just the first we are seeing take this action but it will probably start happening all over before next spring.
 
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petros said:
Where? At Wal-Mart?
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One reason all we have in the private sector is Walmart is because with all the inefficient use of public sector funds, many can't afford much more than Walmart. Spend public funds more wisely, then many will be able to upgrade their purchases from Walmart.

JLM said:
Yeah, false savings................"penny wise and pound foolish". $1 for some work beats the hell out of 75 cents for no work!
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You do have a point there. If these golden handshakes are inevitable, then I'd say cut jobs via attrition and find valuable productive work for the rest if possible or, if not, then maybe it's still woth the golden handshake. Or alternatively, in excahnge for severance packages, we help them find comparable work in the private sector if they want, and once we'd found it then we offer it to them as an alternative to severance packages. Or who knows. There are decisions to make either way.
 
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Tonington said:
Yeah, so if all of the employees who leave were working for 20 years, and their salary was $60,000, then they would each get a little more than $23,000 in severence. The government will be spending less, ergo savings.
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$23 Grand severence, yuk, I never could understand the concept of people being paid for not working. That didn't happen (at as common knowledge) 50 years ago. I could understand severence as long as the employee pays into every month.
 
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