The University of Manitoba is looking at the possibility of layoffs after the post-secondary school says it’s expecting to lose millions of dollars from its provincial operating budget this year.
In a letter to faculty and staff, U of M president David Barnard said the provincial government is cutting the institution’s operating grant by five per cent for the upcoming school year.
That’s in addition to earlier demands from the Progressive Conservative government for temporary workforce reductions over the summer at post-secondary institutions, Crown corporations and other publicly-funded bodies. “We must continue to work together now to address additional pressures put on our budget as a result of this significant cut,” Barnard wrote in a