Rogers offering employees ‘voluntary’ departure, retirement packages - BERITAJA

Rogers Communications Inc. has launched “voluntary departure and retirement” packages for labor crossed the telecommunications company, but won’t opportunity really galore workers will beryllium impacted.

A institution root told BERITAJA connected Monday that the packages person been offered to workers successful “most” teams, including the internet, wireless and cablegram divisions.

In a statement, a spokesperson for Rogers said the institution was “taking steps to set our costs building to bespeak the business realities of the existent environment.”

“As portion of this, immoderate teams person chosen to connection voluntary departure and status programs to springiness immoderate labor the prime to determine whether they’d for illustration to enactment pinch the institution aliases statesman a caller chapter,” the spokesperson said.

The institution says national employees, on-air talent, Sportsnet labor and workers astatine the Maple Leaf Sports and Entertainment and Toronto Blue Jays divisions are not eligible for the packages.

Some teams wrong Rogers’ business units and firm functions are eligible, it added.

The news comes days aft CEO Tony Staffieri told shareholders astatine the company’s yearly wide gathering that Rogers needed to trim its operating costs and superior finance plans to reside a “punitive” regulatory situation and competitory pressures.

“This includes clear prioritization and operational efficiency,” he said, pointing to investments successful integer and AI devices “to trim costs and amended customer service.”

“In times of uncertainty, some superior and operating costs must autumn successful statement pinch marketplace realities,” he said.

In its first-quarter net study past week, Rogers said it was slashing its superior spending by 30 per cent compared pinch past twelvemonth and outright cancelling aliases delaying immoderate projects.

At the aforesaid time, Rogers reported a first-quarter profit attributable to shareholders of $438 cardinal connected Wednesday, up from $280 cardinal a twelvemonth earlier. Revenue totalled $5.48 billion, up from $4.98 cardinal successful the first 4th of 2025.

—With files from Global’s Bryan Mullan and Sergio Vargas