Human Resources committee  Right now under the policy that we have, it's my choice.

Human Resources committee  I do make sure that the investigator is acceptable to both parties and I have sometimes had to—without going into details—insist with some of these providers that a person be of a certain gender or maybe be knowledgeable about certain cultures. That is something we do think about

Human Resources committee  Yes, definitely, because even though you have a situation in which no harassment is found, you're facing a damaged workplace. If the employment relationship should continue, I think from an HR perspective, there should be some intervention to make sure that the workplace is repai

Human Resources committee  Right now, as I said, we provide these services through the Finding Solutions Together program. We have resources available whether through that program or not. With the employee assistance program, I have two nurses on staff who can assist. We can look at additional counselling

Human Resources committee  This is a challenge I have lived in the past two years. As Mr. Robert mentioned, in our environment it's easy. We have 1,800 positions and we can shuffle people. However, in your environment, you're offices are small. You have your Ottawa office, and have your constituency office

Human Resources committee  Fortunately, I haven't had too many repeat offenders, but it's always a challenge, especially depending on who the “offender” is. If it is the member, then maybe a dialogue with the whip would be in order. Fortunately, we haven't had to explore this avenue. These are the types o

Human Resources committee  The question is always, does the relationship of trust still exist? Can the employment relationship still continue? That's where in the past we've looked at different avenues as to how we can take the situation where it is right now, a bad situation, and make it a better situatio

Human Resources committee  That would be on my part. As I said, these were not necessarily inquiries requiring just a phone call, or that type of situation. They were inquiries that required a lot of work on our part. In the example I used earlier, an inquiry did not result in a formal complaint but resul

Human Resources committee  There was no policy before 2014. Basically, this is all new. These numbers are according to the policy that was approved by the board in December 2014. We had no baseline before that. With the low numbers in 2014, 2015, to 2016, the first reporting period was a bit longer; I we

Human Resources committee  The two programs we've added have been developed by staff in my office. For the first one, we used a firm in Montreal to bring the expertise to develop online training. We put our content into their format. If you look at it, you'll see that it's very well made and we're very pro

Human Resources committee  I hope it will. I have three hours. I tried to get more, honestly, but in three hours I can do so much. I was first hired in 1993, so although my employment has been during two different periods, I have fairly extensive knowledge of what you do as members of Parliament, and the

Human Resources committee  We have a definition. As I mentioned, we will table the policies that we have. As I said, the code of conduct, which only deals with sexual harassment between members of Parliament, is very short. It's a one-liner, but the one that applies to members of Parliament as employers

Human Resources committee  This is a fairly new policy from the last two years. The next time we review the policy we'll look at best practices, and if these definitions, these three parts of harassment...or if there's a fourth one that we don't know about, we'll be able to suggest that to the Board of Int

Human Resources committee  As I said earlier, we have resources, especially in the House of Commons. We have the respectful workplace policy, Finding Solutions Together. I've got two nurses on staff in the employee assistance program, and if for whatever reason a case goes beyond our resources, we'll look

Human Resources committee  Absolutely. The policy also applies to them, as if they were employees. It's a matter of reaching out to them to let them know that the resources exist and that they can use them. There are no issues in that regard, since volunteers and interns are specifically covered by the pol