Getting the Pink Slip: Severances and Firings in the Senior Public Service
Edited by William A. W. Neilson
ISBN 0-920715-07-9. Pp. 185. (1990)
Contrary to public belief, security of employment in the upper echelons of Canadian bureaucracies no longer exists. In recent years, thousands of senior public servants have been dismissed because of reorganization, downsizing, cutbacks and privatization. What is the cost of weeding out top bureaucrats? How are their dismissals handled? What severance arrangements are offered? This monograph explores this sensitive and largely unknown area of Canadian Public Administration. It provides a comparative study of the law and the manner in which dismissals of senior public servants have been carried out in Canada and reveals the magnitude of the dismissals and the severance provisions.
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