WINNIPEG—More public-sector job cuts appear to be coming in Manitoba and a long-standing ban on civil service layoffs is about to expire. He has already cut civil service jobs by eight per cent through attrition and has ordered Crown agencies to reduce management positions. Article Continued BelowSome 13,000 civil servants have been protected from outright layoffs by a special clause the NDP agreed to in the last five-year collective agreement. “Apart from management trim at the top of the organization, there’s been virtually no layoffs,” the premier said. “It was a promise this premier and his government made, that they were going to ... protect the services Manitobans rely on,” she said.

Source: thestar December 29, 2018 16:41 UTC