Cost cutting measures put employees on the dock waving goodbye at BC Ferries

Declining revenues and troubled economic times have combined providing for a storm of fiscal concern, one which BC Ferries has answered with job cuts and early retirements to its management levels.

Monday was a rather busy day in the human resources world as the Ferry Corporation reduced the number of directors on their board, and reduced the numbers working in the management and administration departments by 35, engaging in a process that BC Ferries describes as a process which is “aligning our costs with the marketplace during these uncertain and turbulent times.â€