Government Operations committee  Yes, there is some marginal saving there, but it really is marginal when you look at the figures. Since this is a system based on positions, we calculate an average per-employee cost. So since there are more senior employees leaving their position and being replaced by younger on

Government Operations committee  We had many collective agreements. Moreover, a number of decisions were made regarding compensation over the last year or during the forecast period. It is necessary to extend beyond the financial framework and transfer the necessary funding to various departments in order to be

Health committee  The departmental plans would involve dialogue with the bargaining agents. I don't think we can say the plans have been co-developed with them, but they have been done in consultation with the people in the workplace and representatives in the local workplace.

Health committee  The only thing I would add is that although you can reach a certain rate of absenteeism in a pandemic, all will not likely reach that rate at the same time. The workforce will be in and out of the workplace. That is what the planning of critical services is all about, to make s

Health committee  Back in 2006 when we started the pandemic planning, we actually, at that point, engaged with the bargaining agents at the national joint council, actually had a session with them to discuss what we knew about the evolution of a pandemic, to sensitize them to the scientific aspect

Status of Women committee  The reason we went with equitable compensation was to better align with the root documents to which Canada is signatory, the international convention on equitable remuneration. We kept it to compensation because compensation, in our vocabulary, is more encompassing than remunerat

Status of Women committee  Thank you, Madam Chair.

Status of Women committee  Thank you for your comment, because that reassures me in certain things that we have seen emerging. I would say that there is one comment that comes back once people have come over the hurdle of understanding what the underpinnings are. One of the things that some women have men

Status of Women committee  Very briefly, I would draw your attention to section 4 and to the ensuing sections of the act which clearly describe the process whereby employers and bargaining agents will be obligated to share information and work together on equitable compensation assessments. This was not so

Status of Women committee  I would simply ask you to read section 4 and the ensuing sections of the act, which provide for a process very similar to the one you describe, but within the context of collective bargaining. That process calls for the exchange of basic information and for the parties to work to

Status of Women committee  All I can say is that we are seeing a cultural change in our approach to collective bargaining. This cultural change will mean that the principles of equitable compensation will be front and centre at the bargaining table. The parties are responsible for ensuring that this approa

Status of Women committee  Key features that were identified as being essential, proactivity being one of them, were replicated and adopted in this piece of legislation, but this piece of legislation also does what the minister had identified at the time as still being unresolved with what the task force h

Status of Women committee  With respect to the expertise of the Public Service Labour Relations Board, they are currently supporting the parties in pay research, so the idea of becoming even more savvy in pay research capacity to include equitable compensation consideration is something that is doable. Par

Status of Women committee  I'll be more fulsome in 30 seconds. I would add one thought to all that. Resources on both the bargaining agent's side and the employer's side are unfortunately not always focused at the same time on those issues. Bringing them all into the same room for the same process would m

Status of Women committee  Present programs are constructed as you describe and they have indeed produced results. But when the time comes to sit down again to determine salaries, one of the things that was identified in our analysis as a problem that needed to be solved is the fact that two processes are