![]() ![]() ![]() The workers, she said, remained under "a dark cloud" due to their past connections to the organization. "It took six months for some to find permanent jobs," Coombes said in the legislature on Friday. ![]() Kendra Coombes, NDP MLA for Cape Breton Centre-Whitney Pier, says the whistleblowers were among 30 workers at the Island Employment Association who lost their jobs after the province pulled the agency's funding in 2021, shortly after the province's Ombudsman released a report with similar findings of gross mismanagement. A member of the Nova Scotia legislature from Cape Breton says employees who came forward with complaints of financial mismanagement at a local employment agency should have been protected.Įarlier this week, Nova Scotia's auditor general released a report alleging senior leadership of Island Employment Association took part in "gross mismanagement" of public funds totalling more than $1 million, including about $340,000 in transactions that involved alleged conflicts of interest. ![]()
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