Status of Women committee  Okay, it's the solution to that.

Status of Women committee  We all know there was a downsizing process. As I said, it was supposed to be based on work identified and the people then associated with that work. It didn't happen. They went in and just started targeting people and then sorting it out after. If you changed it to what it was su

Status of Women committee  I'd like to make just one point now, because it's also in answer to the million-dollar question that was posed from across the table. The issue is that a person, like the perpetrator, should have known, and it's about trying to get inside their head. When it's dealt with as a hea

Status of Women committee  When the bargaining agents who were in consultation with Treasury Board brought to Treasury Board's attention that the policy did need to be compliant with the new violence regulation, that's where it started to fall apart. The bargaining agents' sides informed Treasury Board tha

Status of Women committee  An added aggravation to this is the way the recent downsizing is having an effect. In theory departments were supposed to identify work to be cut, not individuals. What's happened instead in many of the headquarters is that they have started identifying people and they'll sort ou

Status of Women committee  First of all, I'd try to make it compliant with the law. The first thing is that the policy gives unilateral authority to a manager to determine how it will proceed, and the law doesn't. The law makes it absolutely clear. HRSDC has, in fact, issued directions to many employers wh

Status of Women committee  In addition to that, what we do now in a case like this is we go back and address it under the Canada Labour Code. There are no timeframes around that. This happened within the time that the legal requirements to address it under health and safety were in place. As we find case