Confidential report shows FedNor employees 'rattled' after decades of cuts

New Democratic Party MP Charlie Angus says a 2014 internal survey of FedNor shows employees were increasingly dissatisfied with their jobs and managers.

The 2008-2014 Public Employee Survey Results, published by Industry Canada in May, 2015, shows that frontline workers are "very rattled" after bearing the brunt of nearly a decade of funding cuts.

... the number crunches are affecting their ability to do their work.- NDP MP Charlie Angus

"[The documents] show a sense of disillusionment, a sense of uncertainty and the feeling that the number crunches are affecting their ability to do their work," says Angus

Angus says the report also shows a decline in confidence in management and dissatisfaction with how matters of overtime, communication and harassment were resolved.

Angus says he received the report from an unnamed source at Industry Canada.

Although he doesn't have any results since the survey was done in 2014, Angus says the federal Liberals need to improve funding to restore employee confidence.

The Ministry of Science, Innovation and Economic Development, which is responsible for FedNor, has yet to respond.