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Human Resources committee I don't.
February 21st, 2019Committee meeting
Robert Bronk
Human Resources committee I was speaking about that because I used to be the training director, so I lived it. That was two years ago.
February 21st, 2019Committee meeting
Robert Bronk
Human Resources committee The changes are important, but as I mentioned, a lot of times people are not seeing their money until the ninth or tenth week when they're already back to work. That's been a problem I was trying to fix in my previous role. Sometimes it just takes so long to get it processed, and
February 21st, 2019Committee meeting
Robert Bronk
Human Resources committee Yes, they've already gone back to work. That is a problem. A lot of times, you have a hard time getting someone on the phone. Sometimes it's an online submission, and you didn't do the postal code right, or you did a code wrong and don't know why it's being delayed. Unfortunatel
February 21st, 2019Committee meeting
Robert Bronk
Human Resources committee You can apply a week or two before you actually start your training, but you can't hit “send” until you have actually physically stopped working and are at the training centre. I don't know. I just think that if there were a help line or a process where they could see—
February 21st, 2019Committee meeting
Robert Bronk
Human Resources committee —where their application was.... Sometimes they don't know until the fifth week that they did something wrong.
February 21st, 2019Committee meeting
Robert Bronk
Human Resources committee The issue is huge in Ontario, and we are just in the process of.... The Ontario Construction Secretariat does an analysis of the underground economy every four or five years. It's significant. I don't have the numbers on the tip of my tongue, but it's around $3 billion a year.
February 21st, 2019Committee meeting
Robert Bronk
Human Resources committee Well, some of these workers are legitimate. They're not all necessarily lacking a social insurance number.
February 21st, 2019Committee meeting
Robert Bronk
Human Resources committee I can't comment about the citizenship. I don't have any direction from my board, so I can't speak to that, but the underground economy is a huge problem that we've been waving our flags about for a long time. Some of these operators are getting government contracts, so taxpayers
February 21st, 2019Committee meeting
Robert Bronk
Human Resources committee —surfacing it and moving some of it to legitimate conduct will strengthen the people who are doing their fair share or paying their fair share.
February 21st, 2019Committee meeting
Robert Bronk
Human Resources committee Wow, that's a tough one. Vancouver is like Toronto; the cost of living is just through the roof and the vacancy rates are through the floor. When Alberta was booming, there were a lot of people from the east coast, of course, flying to Alberta and working there. However, when it'
February 21st, 2019Committee meeting
Robert Bronk
Human Resources committee Right.
February 21st, 2019Committee meeting
Robert Bronk
Human Resources committee I wish the time had expired. That's a question. I think it's really complicated. For senior personnel, this is happening. The senior supervisors and foremen who are key employees are being brought to Ontario and are being paid above-average wages. They're more in management or
February 21st, 2019Committee meeting
Robert Bronk
Human Resources committee I'm so glad you asked that question.
February 21st, 2019Committee meeting
Robert Bronk
Human Resources committee If you're familiar with Toronto, you will know that 31 Division in the Jane and Finch area has the highest crime rate in Canada. We are working with the police and we are having an event called “Make your future“. We had one event already, and we're having another in April. It's
February 21st, 2019Committee meeting
Robert Bronk