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Finance committee  The problem is with the legislation, with division 20 of Bill. The problem is with the profound unconstitutionality of this legislation.

June 4th, 2015Committee meeting

Emmanuelle Tremblay

Finance committee  Indeed. Based on the information we had, we examined the total number of days taken in a year, but also the incidence of leave of more than six days' duration. By analyzing all of this data, we were able to determine that the waiting period that is currently being proposed would mean that a large number of employees would run the risk of either not being paid, or of having to go to work while ill.

June 4th, 2015Committee meeting

Emmanuelle Tremblay

Finance committee  We will admit that we don't feel a whole lot of love. We also perceive a lot of contempt when Tony Clement leaves the room where people are studying the budget, saying that he works for public servants who want to work and take their sick leave when they are really sick. What that sounds like to me is that according to him, we public servants take leave when we are not really sick.

June 4th, 2015Committee meeting

Emmanuelle Tremblay

Finance committee  We hear insults every day in the workplace.

June 4th, 2015Committee meeting

Emmanuelle Tremblay

Finance committee  Thank you.

June 4th, 2015Committee meeting

Emmanuelle Tremblay

Finance committee  All I can say is that the average age of our members is relatively low as compared to other cohorts, but I do not have that precise information with me today.

June 4th, 2015Committee meeting

Emmanuelle Tremblay

Finance committee  We all condemn this provision. We all question its constitutionality. May I repeat that this is the retroactive application of a rule after a contract was concluded. As Ms. Daviau mentioned, sick leave is one part of compensation as a whole. At the negotiating table, the employer tells us that he cannot offer us a salary increase that corresponds to the rate of inflation.

June 4th, 2015Committee meeting

Emmanuelle Tremblay

Finance committee  Ladies and gentlemen members of the committee, good morning. Thank you for having invited us to appear before you this morning, in the company of my colleagues from the Public Service Alliance of Canada and the Professional Institute of the Public Service of Canada. The Canadian Association of Professional Employees, or CAPE, represents over 10,000 economists, statisticians and policy analysts, and 925 government translators, interpreters and terminologists, as well as the Library of Parliament analysts and research assistants with whom you deal on a daily basis.

June 4th, 2015Committee meeting

Emmanuelle Tremblay