Jobs: Reimbursement

Early Retirement Dept: Employees who receive letters, and whose jobs are considered "surplus" positions, have 120 days to either choose to stay for a year, take early retirement if they are 55 years old and over, take a buyout package or take a buyout package and reimbursement for educational expenses, according to CBC. "I have friends that found out today they got cut and I've know them for thirty years," one worker, who did not want their name used in fear of their employment, told News. "It's like a funeral." More than 2,000 federal employees in the Ottawa-Gatineau region received redundancy notices Wednesday, which means their jobs could be cut. The overall mood among federal government workers was very gloomy. (www.immigrantscanada.com). As reported in the news.