Hiring Freeze

• Memo details massive cuts to Queen’s University’s Arts and Science budget

  A memo from the Faculty of Arts & Science Dean details plan's to eliminate a $30M deficit over the next two budget years. Austerity measures include a hiring freeze.

  Education

  Nov 27, 2023
  
• Province caps how many officers new Surrey Police Service can hire in 2022

  The province has capped the number of recruits the SPS can onboard in 2022 at fewer than half of what the new department had been aiming for.

  News

  Nov 25, 2021
  
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• Memo from Ontario’s education ministry recommends school boards freeze hiring

  Deputy minister Nancy Naylor sent boards a memo Thursday noting that the government implemented a hiring freeze in June and that school boards may wish to institute similar measures.

  Education

  Mar 1, 2019
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• City of Calgary cost-cutting program hindered by hiring delays

  "It was just a little bit of red tape, so it's ironic that the program that is cutting red tape had to cut a little red tape on itself."

  Politics

  Jan 16, 2018
• SGEU says vacant social services jobs hurts struggling northern Sask. communities

  SGEU worried government hiring freeze will hurt northern Saskatchewan communities; government says it doesn’t apply to frontline positions.

  Politics

  Nov 24, 2016
• ‘Our hand is sort of being forced’: Alberta businesses face changes due to Saturday’s minimum wage hike

  It’s been a bumpy road for Bumpy’s Café. Like a lot of Alberta businesses, it has felt the effects of the economic downturn and now will have to contend with extra labour costs associated with Alberta’s minimum wage increase.

  Consumer

  Sep 30, 2016