Feds must act to protect nuclear workers’ pensions

If not, 3,400 workers will find themselves unable to contribute to their public service pension plans this fall.

Treasury Board President Scott Brison. The board has refused to say how much it would cost the government to continue to provide its nuclear workers with a public service pension plan, write Steven Schumann and Matt Wayland. The Hill Times photograph by Andrew Meade

Opinion

BY MATT WAYLAND, STEVEN SCHUMANN

May 23, 2018

This fall, 3,400 of Canada’s best and brightest nuclear workers will find themselves unable to contribute to their public service pension plans. In fact, any recently hired federal nuclear worker never even had the chance to do so. Hidden away in one of the previous government’s many omnibus bud...

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