The Canadian Press: Staffer severance payments reach $1.7M after Manitoba government changes hands
February 20, 2024 —
“Political jobs are a form of ‘vulnerable employment’ because there is a wholesale exodus of individuals serving the premier, cabinet and individual ministers when governments change,” said Paul Thomas, professor emeritus of political studies at the University of Manitoba.
“Usually there is a formula used to calculate the severance payout for individual staffers based on the level of their former job, their previous salary and years of service.”
A government web page that discloses payments for such employees lists dozens of staff that received severance payments in the weeks following the October election.