Civil service cuts coming?
A blogger called “The Trenchcoat” said yesterday that Shawn Graham is poised to announce a 10% staff reduction. This is said to be achieved through both early retirement offers and terminations of employment.
Of course, Trenchcoat is another anonymous blogger who’s mandate is “Exposing what the Shawn Graham government doesn’t want New Brunswickers to know.”
Nothing about this in the MSM this AM (after a quick scan). I have no real comment on this because I have no idea if the swivel service is too small, too large or just right. I know on a per capita basis the NB government has one of the highest percentages of civil servants per capita in Canada – but that has been since the 1960s.
The Blues won the battle of the bloggers in the last couple of national elections, but as I said before, I think the Libs won – slightly – the battle of the blogs in New Brunswick.
I think political parties would be well advised to ensure they have a foot in this channel.
Not surprised! The last government used the civil service as part of their job creation strategy.
Hopefully, the liberals will remove the employment barriers which restrict the people of the province the right-to-work. (for example: barber shops are not recognized as a legitimate business nor as a form of employment in NB. If you want to create a North Americian Barber Shop franchise, go to Alberta.) Many of the unemployed which believe in the right-to-work move to Ontario, Alberta, and BC to find suitable opportunities and employment. These people end up being great contributors to the Canadian economy and New Brunswick ends up (rightly or wrongly) reaping the equalization payments.
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I don’t understand the above, what does that mean? I had a barber, he used to pay rent at the Student Union building in fredericton. He functioned the same as any business. What exactly does the above refer to? Are there other industries like that, what is the tax implications? I really don’t get it.
Sorry for the misunderstanding. The right-to-work is based on the fact: That the right of persons to work shall not be denied or abridged on account of any government policy, including membership or nonmembership in any association. This is declared to be against the public policy and an illegal combination or conspiracy in restraint of trade or commerce.
In reference to the example provided, please refer to the the
following CBC articles regarding barbers: Splitting
Hairs and the recent article on NB
barbers
The province has legally imposed several retraints in trade and commerce which denies the right of individuals to pursue gainful empolyment,including marketing
boards that restraint trade and commerce in certain products which deny consumers the best possible price based on supply and demand.
This is not good economic policy.
That is just freaking hilarious! I think it’s a case where each industry needs to be examined individually. Marketing boards, for example, are not meant to be good ‘economic policy’ but are meant to be good protectionist policy. Living next to a neighbour who willfully and often breaks laws regarding trade makes any protective barrier a good thing.
But be heartened, the WTO has outlawed Marketing boards and they must be changed by 2010. Canada is already starting to dismantle the wheat board. Anybody that thinks a marketing board has no legitimate function can simply compare the potato industry with other marketing board industries in the province.
But the hairstylist thing is just demented. That literally makes New Brunswick legislators sound insane. At first I thought it was just the Hairstylists Association that was the problem, but apparantly there is actually a piece of legislation that says people have to join these groups? Anybody know what it is?
A government has no right to force associations to do ANYTHING, the only way they could is if they were funding them, which they also shoulding be doing.
One could make the at least decent claim that if you want to open a barber shop you need to have SOME kind of training or certification from some kind of body, but that’s as far as it should go.
If we could find out what the legislation is, I think I know one guy from that cbc article that would be willing to help fight it!
great article very interesting
Gary
http://www.lemonshell.com/legal/employmentlaw.aspx