More than 450 Canada Revenue Agency employees face possible job loss
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The Canada Revenue Agency is facing a new wave of workforce cuts after 479 employees were notified that their positions have been identified as affected under a workforce adjustment process. The move reflects continuing pressure to reduce spending across federal institutions. The affected positions span four branches: Service, Innovation and Integration, Security, Finance and Administration, and a large group within Legislative Policy and Regulatory Affairs. The impact also reaches employees at CRA headquarters in Ottawa and in regional offices across the country.
According to the Union of Taxation Employees, 284 of the affected workers are union members. The union expects 171 of them to be retained, while 113 could ultimately be declared surplus after voluntary departure and retention processes are completed. That means hundreds of jobs are clearly at risk, even though this stage does not amount to an immediate blanket termination of every affected position.
The development comes amid a broader federal effort to shrink the public service. The government says it wants to return the federal workforce to a more sustainable level after it approached 368,000 employees in 2023 and 2024, with an estimated further reduction of 16,000 full-time equivalent positions over the next three years, managed as much as possible through attrition and voluntary departures.
The CRA’s 2026 to 2027 Departmental Plan shows the agency moving from a forecast 51,427 full-time equivalent positions in 2025 to 2026 to 49,498 planned positions in 2026 to 2027, with further declines projected afterward. The agency links that reduction to the winding down of certain funded programs, along with the impact of broader government spending restraint and resource reallocation.
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