Pink slips will soon be issued to about 600 of the 5,690 people the federal agriculture department employs.
The news came in a letter from deputy minister Lawrence Hanson, not from Agriculture Minister Heath MacDonald.
The budget chopped the Agricultural Clean Technology Program and the Youth Employment and Skills Program, so staff involved in those programs are among them losing their employment.
There will also be some retirements and employees moving to jobs elsewhere, and they will be calculated into the job cuts.
I guess MacDonald only wants his name linked to good news.
