CRA tax centre changes to affect about 550 Ottawa workers

About 550 Canada Revenue Agency employees in Ottawa and 2,000 across the country are receiving workforce adjustment letters today as part of a major restructuring at the federal agency.

• Changes coming to CRA tax centres as agency moves to 'streamline processing'

The tax agency's plan to streamline processing activities will see two specialized Ottawa sites gradually consolidated to CRA's seven other processing centres.

The full-time employees work in taxation and processing centres.

Workers will have six months to decide whether to take a job at a tax centre in another part of the country or accept a new post in an office within a 40 kilometre radius.

Robert Campbell, the president of the Union of Taxation Employees, said in a statementthe unionwasn't consulted on the workforce changes.

The readjustments will take place over a two-year period.