Good day, Madam Chair, honourable members of the committee.
My name is Gilles Carpentier and I am Vice-President of Strategic Infrastructure, Organization and Classification Sector, Canada Public Service Agency. Thank you for this opportunity to speak to you today about the three initiatives for which the Canada Public Service Agency is responsible. These initiatives are part of our short and medium-term planning process.
Our first initiative is a complete review of each and every activity in the pay and benefits process with the objective of simplifying and streamlining it. A streamlined and simplified pay and benefits process should result in service improvements and identify opportunities to improve the pay and benefits tool box.
Our second initiative is called pay interface, which may be best summarized as an electronic bridge automatically transferring pay data from existing departmental systems to PWGSC's central pay system, resulting again in simplification of the pay adviser's work.
The third initiative is an electronic pay card, which is meant to eliminate use of the hard-copy pay cards that are still in use in most departments. Again, this more modern working tool should contribute to increased quality of pay and benefits services.
So, in summary, these initiatives are all meant to modernize the pay adviser's tool box and, consequently, increase the quality of pay and benefits services.
Thank you for your attention. I will now turn the floor over to my colleague Renée Jolicoeur from Public Works and Government Services Canada.