December 9, 2020
NAV CANADA announced the continuation of its restructuring efforts which will impact approximately 180 jobs across the country, including layoffs of operational and technology staff.
A detailed review of historical air traffic, the current environment and longer term traffic forecasts informed these changes. Altogether, NAV CANADA has eliminated around 900 jobs, or 17.5 percent of its workforce since the beginning of the COVID-19 pandemic.
NAV CANADA continues an open and transparent dialogue with its unions and remains committed to meeting our obligations under the collective agreements. Today’s decisions are only made after careful consideration of our core mandates of safety and service and will not have any operational impact on the safe delivery of air navigation services across Canada.
Since the beginning of the pandemic, NAV CANADA has taken unprecedented measures to drive our operating expenses down. Our phased approach has included, elimination of executive positions, management salary and bonus program reductions, changes to part of the pension plan applicable to management, ending terms of temporary employees, agreements with unions to suspend programs, early retirement and departure incentives, and an across the board reduction of all non-essential, non-critical activities.
The restructuring of some of our organizational business units, the adjustments of our workforce, and the proposed changes to our level of service since the beginning of the pandemic, are critical steps to align operations and services with air traffic and strengthen the sustainability of NAV CANADA.
For details on our proposed level of service changes, refer to the following news release.