Years of rising costs, limited dialogue will likely leave businesses wary of premier's promises
Premier David Eby is promising what he calls a “reset” in his relationship with B.C.’s business community, including a government hiring freeze to curtail years of enormous public-sector job growth, and a commitment to start looking at internal cost-cutting to bring down the record deficit.
The NDP has had a rocky relationship with business groups over seven years, piling on extra costs in the form of tax increases, new employee medical premiums and mandatory paid sick days for employees. In a subsequent “fireside chat,” chamber CEO Fiona Famulak pressed Eby on the sector’s other big complaint: Massive growth in public-sector employment.
“There is currently a hiring freeze among the public sector,” he said. “Not in the frontline services like health care and education … but among the administration of the public service.”
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