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Finance committee This is typical: pay equity issues get this much time, while all the other important issues—
February 23rd, 2009Committee meeting
Barb Byers
Finance committee I just want to put out here that this is a huge, huge attack on people's ability to use the Human Rights Commission to advance their economic equality, and this isn't about helping anybody in terms of the current economic crisis. This is in fact about hurting people and this is a
February 23rd, 2009Committee meeting
Barb Byers
Finance committee In terms of what this Public Sector Equitable Compensation Act is even doing in this budget act, if it wasn't so desperately awful for women, we would say “What's the problem?” because first of all, they've frozen public sector wages for three years. There is no negotiation. But
February 23rd, 2009Committee meeting
Barb Byers
Finance committee No, it's not really going to apply to anyone, but those to whom it will apply won't get anywhere in terms of advancement at any rate. It's a huge attack on women's economic equality, and I'll tell you that we feel the discrimination every time we take a pay cheque home, every tim
February 23rd, 2009Committee meeting
Barb Byers
Finance committee Okay. I hope your translators and interpreters can keep up with this. I want to speak very quickly about the proposed Public Sector Equitable Compensation Act, and specifically I want to say that this proposed act introduces the notion that women's work in the public sector shou
February 23rd, 2009Committee meeting
Barb Byers
Human Resources committee Can we say absolument?
October 17th, 2006Committee meeting
Barb Byers
Human Resources committee We haven't completed our research.
October 17th, 2006Committee meeting
Barb Byers
Human Resources committee I can't say they came to us in every instance, but we certainly had an opportunity to put forward our positions.
October 17th, 2006Committee meeting
Barb Byers
Human Resources committee Suspicious...?
October 17th, 2006Committee meeting
Barb Byers
Human Resources committee We've tabled with your government all sorts of documents about what we see as important in workplace strategies. The work that was going to be done on labour market partner agreements, our efforts on the workplace skills strategy—these are things that, when you talk about how to
October 17th, 2006Committee meeting
Barb Byers
Human Resources committee The question is, will you read them and will you talk to us about them later?
October 17th, 2006Committee meeting
Barb Byers
October 17th, 2006Committee meeting
Barb Byers
Human Resources committee The money was aimed at a number of equality-seeking groups, including aboriginal people and recent immigrants.
October 17th, 2006Committee meeting
Barb Byers
Human Resources committee Sure, we can drown you in documents.
October 17th, 2006Committee meeting
Barb Byers
Human Resources committee Compounding the lack of employer investment and skills training—which includes workplace-based skills development, apprenticeship, and literacy—are the federal government's cuts to spending on training. These cutbacks have amounted to more than $10 billion since the mid-1990s. Ho
October 17th, 2006Committee meeting
Barb Byers