That's exactly what my concern is as well, for these people who are still doing the same job as they were back before the classification change, but they are being paid more because there has been a classification change. As I was mentioning to one of my colleagues, the big concern with this is if you simply promote somebody to a different job and expect that they do different things and have more responsibilities, we can understand that, if you have to use that as a retention tool to actually promote an individual but then their job changes. But when managers have a situation where, within their department or within their agency, they simply reclassify a group of people with the hopes that those people will stay, then what happens across government is this. I would venture a guess that because all government agencies and departments are in competition with one another, especially during severe labour shortages, as we experienced even a couple of years ago, I think all departments are then put under pressure to make those same changes.
So that's a concern, and then of course what happens is now the economy has changed and certainly the workforce conditions have changed, I think what we would find is that if we put those jobs out in their previous incarnation, as they were classified, we would find people who would be willing to fill those position, possibly in droves. But what we don't have now, I don't think, and maybe you can correct me if I'm wrong, is the capacity. Because there was no real skilled management in terms of changing the classification, there isn't, I wouldn't imagine, any effort to change the classification back to what it was before.
So I'm wondering if there is any oversight or if there's an audit provision or some type of accountability for these managers to ensure that they're not doing this initially, but then in fact if they have done it--we certainly have seen cases where this has taken place-- if there are any provisions to force these managers now to change those classifications back to what they probably should be.