Status of Women committee  We looked at the 30 years of experience that we had in dealing with and managing complaints, and we looked at the track record of those complaints. With extraordinarily few exceptions, the complaints were generated by groups that were at 70% gender predominance, or significantly

Status of Women committee  Right. I know that--

Status of Women committee  When Mr. Farrell appeared before the committee, he did quote from the Canadian Labour Congress women's symposium in 1999. I understand that he left that quotation with you from a part of that. We have a lot of other international academic research that we'd be happy to share wit

Status of Women committee  Your third question was on alternative analyses of merging collective bargaining and pay equity. Honestly, in our research, we did not come across academic assessments that concluded that. We understood that people had testified they didn't like it, so we designed the system to e

Government Operations committee  On the timeliness of payments--you may have missed those opening remarks--essentially we conducted a survey in August. That survey and analysis of PWGSC's online pay system demonstrated to us that 66% of departments on average meet the standards of timeliness. This is not for r

Government Operations committee  Essentially the report will cover exactly that, Madam Chair: the results of the first survey, a summary of the actions taken by departments, and the results of the second survey--some indication of the actions still to be taken if in fact there is still a gap, after the second su

Government Operations committee  Madam Chair, I obviously can't make a reference that something is a classic case, because I can't comment on any pay equity litigation.

Government Operations committee  We feel that pay equity as a whole was broadly addressed in 1999. We are aware that there are outstanding litigations currently in the process that we will address at the appropriate time.

Government Operations committee  We obviously can't offer any comment about any litigation that might be in progress right now, but I will note the question, and if we have a response with information we can bring to the committee, we will do so through the clerk.

Government Operations committee  Madam Chair and members of the committee, my name is Dan Danagher. I'm the executive director of labour relations and compensation operations at the Treasury Board Secretariat. It is an honour to be here today to discuss this issue and to focus on progress we're making in this ar

Public Accounts committee  That's correct.

Public Accounts committee  I'd have to defer to my expert, if I could. It's an important question. Could Ram Singh, who has been previously identified, come to the table and answer those questions?

Public Accounts committee  I think the question is probably for both Public Works and for TBS. On the TBS side, we felt we did have a way to measure the performance of the IRP. One of the things we looked at, as I said before.... Because this is a national joint council policy, we worked with the national

Public Accounts committee  I would guess yes.

Public Accounts committee  I think it's important for us to point out that we agreed fully with the Auditor General's recommendations that we put in place a more formal performance measurement program, including a survey that had been previously designed, and we hope to be able to launch that within the co