Hundreds of contractual workers from the Calls of Appeal of the Canada Revenue Agency (ARC) in New Brunswick and Newfoundland and Labrador will lose their jobs from May 16, while the tax season ends.
According to the union of tax employees, the contract of 250 employees of Saint-Jean, in Newfoundland, will not be renewed. In New Brunswick, 125 workers are affected. Most of them are in Saint-Jean, New Brunswick.
The Canada Revenue Agency announced Thursday that more than 1,000 contracts will not be renewed across the country.
It is a rehearsal of the past year when the employer had left 2000 people
explains Marc Brière, national president of the union of tax employees who believes that job cuts will not stop there.
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Marc Brière, National President of the Tax Employee Syndicate (Archives Photo)
Photo: Canadian press / Justin Tang
He wants to be realistic and pessimistic and believes that other job losses, including permanent workers come in the next two years.
He says he is very worried about the situation and asks the newly elected Prime Minister to stop making cuts in the Federal Public Service. It’s enough to do more with less
insists Marc Brière.
It has a domino effect, it has a very important impact for workers who lose their jobs, their families, communities, but also for those who will continue to do the work […] It will put additional pressure
he insists.
With information from Justin Dupuis and CBC
