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Government Operations committee  As you were talking, what came to mind was an analogy to global warming. In answer to Mr. Warkentin's question about the level of the problem, I think the difficulty is that you are starting to see the tip of the iceberg, and the problem facing this community is going to get wors

June 7th, 2007Committee meeting

David Orfald

Government Operations committee  Absolutely, and we have done a lot of work as a union with the members who are on the front lines of this work. Together we have put forward a series of proposals to what is now the Canada Public Service Agency about how to move forward on the classification immediately and how t

June 7th, 2007Committee meeting

David Orfald

Government Operations committee  Maybe the easiest way to respond is with a couple of examples. I'll mention two things. First is, again, the apprenticeship idea. Traditionally an apprenticeship program requires a partnership between the employer and the union, between existing employees and new employees comi

March 29th, 2007Committee meeting

David Orfald

Government Operations committee  I guess there are a couple of things to respond to there. I think the problem is much bigger than senior leadership, and it's bigger than what is traditionally called “knowledge workers”. I think the problem extends to a whole series of other segments of the federal public serv

March 29th, 2007Committee meeting

David Orfald

Government Operations committee  There are a number of solutions that we've put forward, which come from working with this group of people and the experience they've had. We have to recognize that in fact the modernization agency has moved on some of those. They've made some efforts around recruitment. That's po

March 29th, 2007Committee meeting

David Orfald

Government Operations committee  It would be roughly 60% or so, because you have a large number of employees in other agencies like CRA, Parks, CFIA. Those separate employers have not necessarily adopted that same approach.

March 29th, 2007Committee meeting

David Orfald

Government Operations committee  Well, it's certainly something that in the case of some of the separate employers we have brought forward as a bargaining proposal from time to time in various rounds. It's difficult to explain exactly why we've not gotten agreement of the employers in those situations to extend

March 29th, 2007Committee meeting

David Orfald

Government Operations committee  I'm not surprised by the numbers you've got. We recently had access to a study from the Conference Board of Canada. Their approach into looking at temporary help agencies was to more or less celebrate it and suggest to their members that they've got opportunities here for bidding

March 29th, 2007Committee meeting

David Orfald

Government Operations committee  What we're suggesting here is that the pension plan is an important attraction for recruitment and retention purposes, and the appropriate strategy for attempting to retain people longer would be to introduce options allowing for greater flexibility around the taking of your pens

March 29th, 2007Committee meeting

David Orfald

Government Operations committee  I'll respond to that. The skilled trades group in the federal public service is one of the groups that is older, on average, than the ones you see generally across the federal public service. In fact, we're looking at a really significant number of retirements in the next ten ye

March 29th, 2007Committee meeting

David Orfald

Government Operations committee  There are probably a couple of elements there. One is that they can't find people, and another one is that they've adopted it because it provides them with more flexibility around hiring—

March 29th, 2007Committee meeting

David Orfald