{"id":30946,"date":"2025-07-29T21:54:08","date_gmt":"2025-07-29T21:54:08","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/30946\/"},"modified":"2025-07-29T21:54:08","modified_gmt":"2025-07-29T21:54:08","slug":"statistics-canada-to-end-most-term-casual-employment-contracts-by-october","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/30946\/","title":{"rendered":"Statistics Canada to end most term, casual employment contracts by October"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>\t\t\t\t\t<img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/07\/68893818023d1607fa6fc852jpeg.jpg\" class=\"object-fit-cover\" alt=\"\"\/><\/p>\n<p>By Canadian Press<\/p>\n<p>\n\t\t\t\tJul 29, 2025 | 3:07 PM\n\t\t\t<\/p>\n<p>OTTAWA \u2014 Statistics Canada has announced it will end many term and casual employment contracts by October as it faces budget cuts. <\/p>\n<p>A note sent to employees Monday by Chief Statistician Andr\u00e9 Loranger confirms the agency is ending many specified-period positions, including for term, casual and part-time workers, by October 8.<\/p>\n<p>A spokesperson for StatCan says 142 individuals will be affected by the measure and that exceptions will be made where needed to avoid a \u201csignificant\u201d impact on the delivery of a program or service, like the upcoming census.<\/p>\n<p>In his note to staff, Loranger says the cuts are being made in response to the recent expenditure review announced by the government, which tasks most departments and agencies with finding savings of up to 15 per cent over the next three years.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"By Canadian Press Jul 29, 2025 | 3:07 PM OTTAWA \u2014 Statistics Canada has announced it will end&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":30947,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[13],"tags":[64,63,99,180],"class_list":{"0":"post-30946","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-jobs","8":"tag-au","9":"tag-australia","10":"tag-business","11":"tag-jobs"},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/30946","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=30946"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/30946\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/30947"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=30946"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=30946"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=30946"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}