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Government Operations committee We applaud our employer for the efforts being made to develop, first, systems that will streamline the transactional portion of our functions and, second, self-serve systems for managers and employees. What concerns us is the timing and the impact it will have on our positions.
February 5th, 2008Committee meeting
Diane Melançon
Government Operations committee I can give you an example. I am an Industry Canada employee. I have been working at Statistics Canada since October 2006, and I still am. There are four of us helping them out. It is just chaos over there. Of course they're not talking about that in the newspapers, but they're so
February 5th, 2008Committee meeting
Diane Melançon
Government Operations committee They've begun to develop things so that employees in every department have access to their pay stubs, which they can print themselves. They'll be able to get into the system, which is already possible now, and do an estimate of what their pension would be if they retired. Employe
February 5th, 2008Committee meeting
Diane Melançon
Government Operations committee There are full-time employees, there are part-time employees; there are all the scenarios. As I said, the full-time employees often have problems because they have worked overtime and have not been compensated. They may have been waiting for a cheque for up to six months. There's
February 5th, 2008Committee meeting
Diane Melançon
Government Operations committee It happens fairly often.
February 5th, 2008Committee meeting
Diane Melançon
Government Operations committee It goes beyond reality.
February 5th, 2008Committee meeting
Diane Melançon
Government Operations committee Pardon me, there were 109: 60 were recruited by Public Works and Government Services Canada, and 49 were distributed among the other departments. They are full-time employees.
February 5th, 2008Committee meeting
Diane Melançon
February 5th, 2008Committee meeting
Diane Melançon
Government Operations committee It started in 2000.
February 5th, 2008Committee meeting
Diane Melançon
Government Operations committee Since February 14, 2000, we've attended committee meetings with the union, and so on. The members of the compensation committee ultimately retained their own lawyer. We've all had to provide money to pay him. The complaint has just been accepted by the Canadian Human Rights Commi
February 5th, 2008Committee meeting
Diane Melançon
Government Operations committee These are the departments that were affected the most, and still are today.
February 5th, 2008Committee meeting
Diane Melançon
Government Operations committee It is Statistics Canada where we are working overtime. That is just one of the departments that is having these problems.
February 5th, 2008Committee meeting
Diane Melançon
Government Operations committee I can tell you that, even if, for example, the government transferred all service buy-backs for pensions to Moncton—that's already been done, a few years ago—if it transferred all those duties to Moncton, that would reduce our workload a little, but it would be a very small reduc
February 5th, 2008Committee meeting
Diane Melançon
Government Operations committee At first, it was with our union, of course, the Public Service Alliance of Canada, of which Nicole Turmel was president at the time. That led to nothing. I should give her some merit, however, because, just before she changed unions, she ultimately admitted that these old problem
February 5th, 2008Committee meeting
Diane Melançon
Government Operations committee I'm going to let Jill speak.
February 5th, 2008Committee meeting
Diane Melançon