Madam Chair, I can understand the interest of this committee in movement rates in the Public Service of Canada, and I understand that the president of the Public Service Commission, Mme Barrados, mentioned this subject in an annual report. The agency will be pleased to note any questions you might have on employee movement and will provide you with a response.
However, I'm prepared to talk about movement in the compensation advisory community, which is the topic for today. Certainly we are prepared to talk about that community, but not about the public service at all. That was not how we prepared ourselves. We thought we were responding to questions this committee had at the last hearing, in June.
In terms of employee movement in the public service, obviously it increases the workload for this community. I will talk to you now about the turnover rates for those people.
From May 2006 to June 2007, the retirement rate for the compensation community was 4.0%. The separation from the public service was 1.1%. It means that when we consider the departures for the entire group, we're talking about 5.1%. That is a little bit over the rate of the public service. That is because the compensation community is older than the rest of the public service, as a community.