CBC News: Wednesday, September 2, 2009
About 300 B.C. government employees will likely lose their jobs as a result of the budget cuts rolled out Tuesday by Finance Minister Colin Hansen, according to a memo obtained by CBC News. Staff had been warned that up to five per cent of the 30,000 jobs in the public sector — about 1,500 jobs — were at risk as the government moved to curtail spending.But in the memo sent to staff Tuesday after the budget was tabled, Jessica MacDonald, deputy minister to the premier, said job cuts will be much more limited than projected after losses from retirement and attrition are considered."I am now able to say that due to the measures we have introduced we have been successful in reducing those numbers to less than one per cent of the organization this year, or under 300 positions," MacDonald said in the memo.
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