{"id":9132,"date":"2025-09-04T17:58:00","date_gmt":"2025-09-04T21:58:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/stillcoviding.ca\/en\/?p=9132"},"modified":"2025-09-06T21:26:12","modified_gmt":"2025-09-07T01:26:12","slug":"public-health-agency-of-canada-cutting-hundreds-of-jobs","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/stillcoviding.ca\/en\/news\/public-health-agency-of-canada-cutting-hundreds-of-jobs\/","title":{"rendered":"Public Health Agency of Canada cutting hundreds of jobs"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Approximately 320 jobs will be cut at the Public Health Agency of Canada (PHAC) as part of a \u201cpost pandemic calibration\u201d at the federal department.<\/p>\n<p>The Public Health Agency of Canada confirmed to CTV News Ottawa a review of programs will result in job cuts to align department spending with approved funding for the 2026-27 fiscal year.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cAs part of PHAC\u2019s post-pandemic recalibration and ongoing efforts to adjust to new salary allocations, the agency must focus resources on government-funded priorities. This means re-prioritizing and streamlining some programs, and in some cases discontinuing work,\u201d a PHAC spokesperson said in an email.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cAs a result of this assessment, the agency will implement Workforce Adjustment (WFA) measures to align with approved funding levels for fiscal year 2026\u201327.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>The spokesperson said while the exact number of job cuts cannot be confirmed at this time, the workforce adjustment is expected to result in approximately 320 job cuts.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Approximately 320 jobs will be cut at the Public Health Agency of Canada (PHAC) as part of a \u201cpost pandemic calibration\u201d at the federal department.<\/p>\n<p>The Public Health Agency of Canada confirmed to CTV News Ottawa a review of programs will result in job cuts to align department spending with approved funding for the 2026-27 fiscal year.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cAs part of PHAC\u2019s post-pandemic recalibration and ongoing efforts to adjust to new salary allocations, the agency must focus resources on government-funded priorities. This means re-prioritizing and streamlining some programs, and in some cases discontinuing work,\u201d a PHAC spokesperson said in an email.<\/p>\n<div class=\"more-link-wrapper\"><a class=\"more-link\" href=\"https:\/\/stillcoviding.ca\/en\/news\/public-health-agency-of-canada-cutting-hundreds-of-jobs\/\">Continue reading<span class=\"screen-reader-text\">Public Health Agency of Canada cutting hundreds of jobs<\/span><\/a><\/div>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[6],"tags":[673,96,1105,282,119,137,249,97,309,258,872],"class_list":["post-9132","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-news","tag-budget-cuts","tag-canada","tag-government-of-canada","tag-manitoba","tag-ontario","tag-ottawa","tag-ottawa-gatineau","tag-pandemic-response","tag-pro-virus-policies","tag-public-health-agency-of-canada","tag-winnipeg","entry"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/stillcoviding.ca\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/9132","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/stillcoviding.ca\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/stillcoviding.ca\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/stillcoviding.ca\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/stillcoviding.ca\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=9132"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/stillcoviding.ca\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/9132\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":9140,"href":"https:\/\/stillcoviding.ca\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/9132\/revisions\/9140"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/stillcoviding.ca\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=9132"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/stillcoviding.ca\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=9132"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/stillcoviding.ca\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=9132"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}