Around 68,000 public servants received letters this week informing them of eligibility for potential early retirement incentives, coming as Ottawa pushes to cut 30,000 positions from the public service in the next five years.
Ottawa has already cut about 10,000 positions from the public service over this past year as part of wider expenditure savings planned in the next few years that are laid out in the Nov. 4 federal budget.
The letter received by eligible public servants informed them that no action on their part was required upon receipt of the letter but said that those interested in being exempted from pension reductions for early retirement could apply to be considered….