Thank you, Mr. Speaker. I will try to answer that question. The JEPS system was a research committee which relied solely on employee questionnaires to evaluate sample positions in the government. We believe the quality and the rate of responses to the questionnaires varied considerably. There was not an in-depth evaluation of job by job. The Hay Plan Associates is a system we have been using for the past 20 years. We asked them, because of their Canada-wide experience, if they could do a position by position evaluation. We now have that and that is how we determined the retroactivity in terms of pay equity. The ongoing costs, I think we identified them as $9 million, I believe. It was a question of accuracy and taking the time to do, not just a sample view of jobs in the government, but to do each and every one of the individual jobs, with an organization that has the credible, professional standing in the job evaluation business and who have done numerous job evaluations for other provincial jurisdictions. Thank you.
John Todd on Question 312-13(5): Distribution Of Pay Equity Settlement
In the Legislative Assembly on February 13th, 1998. See this statement in context.
Further Return To Question 312-13(5): Distribution Of Pay Equity Settlement
Question 312-13(5): Distribution Of Pay Equity Settlement
Item 6: Oral Questions
February 12th, 1998
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John Todd Keewatin Central
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