Layoffs at Canada Science and Technology Museum

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The organization that runs three Ottawa museum said it has laid off 17 workers from the Canada Science and Technology Museum.

The vice-president of public affairs for the Canada Science and Technology Museums Corporation confirmed the layoffs Friday. The corporation is in charge of the Canada Agriculture Museum, the Canada Science and Technology Museum and the Canada Aviation and Space Museum.

Yves St-Onge said three of the cuts were public affairs clerks. There was also a handful of exhibit designers and the rest worked in library and cataloguing services. They were all handed their layoff notices Thursday.

"It was very difficult for the organization to come to that conclusion because these were employees, some with long service with us, but we had an overall commitement of maintaining a balanced budget," St-Onge said.

"It's the only way we could actually come out to a sustainable budget management to reduce our salary budgets."



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