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Status of Women committee  We are obviously very committed to applying the pay equity ruling as efficiently as possible. It's a complex issue and it is taking time. We have about 30,000 employee files that have to be reviewed. The records go back 30 years. Many of them are paper-based and on microfiche so it's quite a daunting task.

January 31st, 2013Committee meeting

Ann Therese MacEachern

Status of Women committee  I am going to sound a bit repetitive, but I think it goes back to culture, which I think is not going to come as a surprise to any of you folks. As I said in my remarks, we're not perfect, and Canada Post has been working on improving the culture in our workplace. We've done a number of things in that regard to move the dial.

January 31st, 2013Committee meeting

Ann Therese MacEachern

Status of Women committee  We're open to sharing it. Maybe you could talk about that, Amanda.

January 31st, 2013Committee meeting

Ann Therese MacEachern

Status of Women committee  That 28% was with respect to women in senior leadership positions, at what we call the director level and above. I'd have to get back to you with the stats. I don't have them off the top of my head as we go down, but again, we've made very, very good progress over the last number of years in going from 40 to 50.

January 31st, 2013Committee meeting

Ann Therese MacEachern

Status of Women committee  There are two answers to that I guess. Most of our employees have job security so while we have seen reductions in our workforce as the end result of declines in mail volume, they have been handled or managed through attrition. From that perspective no, and quite frankly within the management ranks, again I haven't seen this.

January 31st, 2013Committee meeting

Ann Therese MacEachern

Status of Women committee  If I could add to that, often we'll go into an environment—

January 31st, 2013Committee meeting

Ann Therese MacEachern

Status of Women committee  â€”where it may be beyond just those two people. There may be something else that's more systemic. The human rights group has looked at creating workforce charters with the employees in that unit to try to again establish what kind of work environment we wish to create and get alignment among the parties.

January 31st, 2013Committee meeting

Ann Therese MacEachern

Status of Women committee  I don't have a cost. There are so many ways, I guess, in which you could calculate it, but I don't have a cost to the impact of sexual harassment in the workplace. I'm going to sound a little bit like a broken record. Again, I think it's around the tone you set. It's around the expectations you set.

January 31st, 2013Committee meeting

Ann Therese MacEachern

Status of Women committee  We have about 65,000, and that's all in. We have a lot of term employees. We have about 56,000 permanent employees, and we have a number of temporary employees and part-time employees. That's the range.

January 31st, 2013Committee meeting

Ann Therese MacEachern

Status of Women committee  That's correct.

January 31st, 2013Committee meeting

Ann Therese MacEachern

Status of Women committee  I don't get that sense. I don't think there would be an under-reporting because of job security. As I said, there are so many different avenues for people to report those. I also don't want to mislead the committee and say that there have been a lot of dismissals within our unionized workforce.

January 31st, 2013Committee meeting

Ann Therese MacEachern

Status of Women committee  I would reposition it a little bit and say that we focus a lot on training. We put a lot of effort and spend a lot of money on training in general. A lot of that training and a lot of the issues that are linked to sexual harassment are really about.... Again, I'm going to go back to that bigger piece.

January 31st, 2013Committee meeting

Ann Therese MacEachern

Status of Women committee  It's our own people. We have representatives, as I said, from our unions who co-facilitate, but it's our own internal people who also deliver the training. It's one of the nice areas where there's a wonderful alignment between our unions and management on making sure that our workplace is free from discrimination.

January 31st, 2013Committee meeting

Ann Therese MacEachern

Status of Women committee  There are disciplinary processes that we follow with respect to our unionized employees. There are a number of steps that need to be followed, managed, and so forth with those. I would say with our management employees the tolerance level is lower. The reason for that is, and I talked a bit about it earlier, it's around the tone that you need to set, and the leadership that's expected from that group.

January 31st, 2013Committee meeting

Ann Therese MacEachern

Status of Women committee  In terms of content, there's a range of elements to it, and Amanda could probably speak to the details, that really deal with the highlights of the 11 grounds of discrimination including, as I said, a piece on sexual orientation. It was co-designed and is co-delivered with members of our union.

January 31st, 2013Committee meeting

Ann Therese MacEachern