Thank you, Mr. Chairman. As I indicated earlier in my response, I made a point of saying that there were 29.5 positions identified for reduction and 18 had incumbents. I went down a list saying that six will be negatively effected and there will be other opportunities before being laid off. Four had indicated preference to be laid off. One employee is retiring. Seven new positions have been created to combine the responsibilities of existing positions. We have gone through this with the department. We looked at the recommendation of the standing committee and we could not support the reinstatement of these positions when we looked at the recommendation and at the cost of the options for delivering the programs that we have. Like I said, for streamlining the department and for trying to meet our targets through the budget reduction exercises, we identified these positions. We tried to eliminate most of the positions that were not filled first and then we looked at the positions that we felt were not required at this time based on the amount of actual reduction in the capital that we have today. We do not require as many people to carry out this work. Based on that, we made the decision to stick with our original plan. Thank you.
Jim Antoine on Committee Motion 12-13(4): Recommendation Of Cr 4-13(4): Resource Management
In the Legislative Assembly on February 13th, 1997. See this statement in context.
Committee Motion 12-13(4): Recommendation Of Cr 4-13(4): Resource Management
Item 19: Consideration In Committee Of The Whole Of Bills And Other Matters
February 12th, 1997
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Jim Antoine Nahendeh
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