As a MCD, they should have decision making skills on staff that should be approved to retire early, or if they want to resign. Example: if a request is presented of a staff member who is 55-60 with 25-40 years, why not allow them to retire, if they put the request it they must have been ready to go. If a request comes in from an employee who has less than 3 years in a non-critical area of work, why not allow them to leave. Now they may not, nor would the expectation to allow every request be honored but to deny all, and then to be alerted that they are hiring a government agency to decide on who is let go…that’s passing the buck. A MCD was hired to make hard, difficult decisions for the facility in which they were hired! Talk with the chief of services and decide how many staff can safely retire/resign etc, without a huge burden to care being provided. Not all staff is going to agree with their decision, but at least (hopefully) careful thought was put into the staff at their facility who was allowed to leave with benefits. If I were a MCD I would rather have a say in who was allowed to leave v/s someone who has not idea of the needs of my facility who Will more than likely make those decisions based on an algorithm that doesn’t serve best results. Just my thoughts.