Salgo: Is the federal government treating its term workers fairly?

Prime Minister Mark Carney’s promised program review hasn’t even begun but the public service is already shedding staff, mostly contract employees with terms of up to two years. The axe has fallen particularly hard at the Canada Revenue Agency, which relies on term workers for around 20 per cent of its 60,000-strong workforce and is eliminating more than 1,000 of them. That’s in addition to not extending the contracts of about 2,000 contact centre workers, despite complaints about inadequate service levels. Read More