The union representing Manitoba government employees wants more details before it considers the Pallister government’s plan to reduce the work week for public servants during the COVID-19 outbreak.

Faced with an estimated $1 billion in costs stemming from the pandemic, the government wants to cut hours or temporarily lay off government workers and Crown corporation employees it deems non-essential.

The government has asked the Manitoba Government and General Employees’ Union to help lobby the federal government to expand job-sharing programs and employment insurance options, already available to the private sector, to provincial civil servants.

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