Government Operations committee  They would apply on a competition. That would be a staffing matter to change from one classification to another. It's certainly not negotiable.

Government Operations committee  I would say that if you increased the salary they would like it, but it certainly wouldn't solve the problem. It's deeper than just that.

Government Operations committee  It would be a step in the right direction, but it wouldn't solve the problem. It's a systemic problem and it has to be dealt with.

Government Operations committee  Yes, they just changed the name, but the legal term is still that. They have to put the resources into it to make it work, and they have to sit down and come to the table. It was more than a year ago that they signed a letter saying that they would work within six months with u

Government Operations committee  It's only one solution, because that is only one portion of the work that this community does. Shediac, as you know, is where all pension files that are relied upon for making the decisions on the pensions of individuals who are in the plan are housed. It's not all of the files;

Government Operations committee  The whole thing is that people are leaving the system faster than they can bring them in, and they're leaving it because they're not addressing some of the things such as the classification.

Government Operations committee  Retention is one thing, but the whole thing is getting the resources, getting to sit down with the appropriate people in the Public Service Human Resources Management Agency, or whatever they're called today--the agency.

Government Operations committee  Your classification is determined by the level of the work you have to do, and the people who are there right now are not appropriately classified and therefore they move on to other departments. Why do they want the headache of doing all of this very, very detailed work and not

Government Operations committee  We've mentioned a couple of areas, and I'll touch on them again, but one of the other areas is that they've got to hire more people and they've got to provide the necessary, appropriate training for the people they bring in, to bring them up to the level they need to get to. In a

Government Operations committee  Your classification determines your rate of pay. If you're an AS-2, AS-3, AS-4, AS-5—

Government Operations committee  I certainly don't have the number, but as president of the Public Service Alliance of Canada, I can poll my executive, who deal directly with the various locals, and we can try to get you a snapshot of the number of issues that come directly to them. That would only reflect a sma

Government Operations committee  The testing is one thing, and they have to address what they want to get in. If they want to get people with the qualities and who could be trained to do the job, they could do that if they really wanted to do it, but that does not fix the problem. One of the basic issues is not

Government Operations committee  Thank you, Madam Chair and members of the committee, for inviting me here. When I appeared before this committee on March 29 of this year to address issues related to recruitment, retention, and hiring practices of the federal government related to employment equity, I and my co

Finance committee  Maybe in the auto industry.

Finance committee  Yes, but that's....