Tag Archives: layoffs

Nutrien says a tight potash market is prompting job cuts at its mine near Vanscoy, Sask. The company announced Tuesday morning that it would be eliminating 20 staff and 60 hourly positions at the mine...

Nutrien has announced a round of layoffs at its Vanscoy potash mine. In a release issued Wednesday morning, the company said it was eliminating 30 staff and 50 hourly positions from the site, located ...

Cameco will let go of 550 people at its Key Lake and McArthur River mine sites, in addition to layoffs at its corporate office. Citing "a weak uranium market," the company decided not to start up prod...

The Saskatchewan Polytechnic faculty association wants the college's board to re-examine last week's decision to cut athletics and recreation programs. Seven employees lost their jobs as a result of t...

A pair of PotashCorp mines near Saskatoon will be temporarily shut down over the winter to allow the company to adjust its inventory. The company announced Wednesday that temporary layoffs would be is...

Potash workers at the Lanigan mine were treated with Christmas cheer Thursday morning. Lanigan was supposed to be shut down for six weeks beginning in January, but that's no longer the case. It will b...

Employees at a potash mine just outside of Saskatoon have been told they'll be laid off.   Two miners from Potash Corporation of Saskatchewan's Cory mine told 650 CKOM they got the news...

The proverbial bread lines are getting longer in Regina as the oil downturn continues to impact jobs here. By the end of the week, about 160 people will have been laid off from Evraz's Regina plant in...

Just a couple of week before the holidays, BHP Billiton plans to layoff 76 employees, most of them in Saskatoon, to offset a steady decline in commodity prices. "We had a tough year last year of signi...

Some Saskatoon Health Region employees will lose their jobs this holiday season, but just how many positions will be cut is still up in the air. The health region is projecting its largest deficit eve...