{"id":9654,"date":"2026-01-23T07:14:00","date_gmt":"2026-01-23T12:14:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/stillcoviding.ca\/en\/?p=9654"},"modified":"2026-01-29T21:40:54","modified_gmt":"2026-01-30T02:40:54","slug":"health-canada-the-latest-federal-department-to-issue-layoff-notices","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/stillcoviding.ca\/en\/news\/health-canada-the-latest-federal-department-to-issue-layoff-notices\/","title":{"rendered":"Health Canada the latest federal department to issue layoff notices"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>More than 3,000 employees at Health Canada and Agriculture and Agri-Food Canada have been notified their jobs may be affected as federal departments continue to issue notices about possible layoffs in the public service.<\/p>\n<p>Health Canada and Agriculture and Agri-Food Canada are the latest departments to notify employees of possible job cuts in January, as the federal government looks to cut 28,000 jobs over the next four years.<\/p>\n<p>The Public Service Alliance of Canada said 897 of its members received a workforce adjustment letter from the department this week, while the Professional Institute of the Public Service of Canada (PIPSC) says over 700 of its members received a notice. The Canadian Association of Professional Employees (CAPE) told CTV News Ottawa that 331 of its members received notices at Health Canada.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>More than 3,000 employees at Health Canada and Agriculture and Agri-Food Canada have been notified their jobs may be affected as federal departments continue to issue notices about possible layoffs in the public service.<\/p>\n<p>Health Canada and Agriculture and Agri-Food Canada are the latest departments to notify employees of possible job cuts in January, as the federal government looks to cut 28,000 jobs over the next four years.<\/p>\n<div class=\"more-link-wrapper\"><a class=\"more-link\" href=\"https:\/\/stillcoviding.ca\/en\/news\/health-canada-the-latest-federal-department-to-issue-layoff-notices\/\">Continue reading<span class=\"screen-reader-text\">Health Canada the latest federal department to issue layoff notices<\/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":[673,96,21,119,137,249,70],"class_list":["post-9654","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-news","tag-budget-cuts","tag-canada","tag-health-canada","tag-ontario","tag-ottawa","tag-ottawa-gatineau","tag-quebec","entry"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/stillcoviding.ca\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/9654","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=9654"}],"version-history":[{"count":3,"href":"https:\/\/stillcoviding.ca\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/9654\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":9665,"href":"https:\/\/stillcoviding.ca\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/9654\/revisions\/9665"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/stillcoviding.ca\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=9654"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/stillcoviding.ca\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=9654"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/stillcoviding.ca\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=9654"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}