The RCMP are braced to lay off 130 civilians working on the national gun registry within weeks, says the Ottawa chief of the union representing the threatened workers. They might be doing that as a preliminary to contracting-out. The whole thing's a zoo at this point.
Nobody's sure what's going on.
These would be term employees. Mohamed said the work of the laid-off employees could be farmed out to private companies. Where outsourcing can do a better job, we are looking at that. Ray said she's certain not all of the targeted employees have finished their contract terms. She said the layoffs probably are due to a shortfall in funding provided by Justice to the RCMP to run the registry.