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Supplementary To Question 481-13(5): Hay Job Evaluation System
Question 481-13(5): Hay Job Evaluation System
Item 6: Oral Questions

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The Speaker Samuel Gargan

Thank you. Mr. Todd.

Further Return To Question 481-13(5): Hay Job Evaluation System
Question 481-13(5): Hay Job Evaluation System
Item 6: Oral Questions

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John Todd Keewatin Central

I think as we speak, Mr. Speaker, we are, in fact, providing that information to all of our employees on an individual and collective basis. We now have all the information we require with respect to, for example, a community social worker, who under the old system was at the pay level 21 lets say making $49,000 - $50,000 a year. Under the new system there will be a different pay level in fact they will be paid somewhere between $57,000 - $58,000 a year, which is about a 16 percent increase in salary. All that information will be provided to the individual workers, et cetera. I am fairly confident that the majority of our workers will be content with this new evaluation system. Hopefully, we can reassure those on the side where their pay or evaluation has downgraded their pay level, that there will be no financial loss whatsoever to those employees. Thank you.

Further Return To Question 481-13(5): Hay Job Evaluation System
Question 481-13(5): Hay Job Evaluation System
Item 6: Oral Questions

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The Speaker Samuel Gargan

Oral questions. Supplementary, Mr. Miltenberger.

Supplementary To Question 481-13(5): Hay Job Evaluation System
Question 481-13(5): Hay Job Evaluation System
Item 6: Oral Questions

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Michael Miltenberger

Michael Miltenberger Thebacha

Thank you, Mr. Speaker. Could the Minister indicate in terms of communicating this very important issue to the staff and being able to respond, whether the various managers at the regional and community level will be conversant enough with this system to be able to answer a lot of the important questions that I am sure are going to result when people actually get the payroll numbers and all those other issues? Thank you.

Supplementary To Question 481-13(5): Hay Job Evaluation System
Question 481-13(5): Hay Job Evaluation System
Item 6: Oral Questions

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The Speaker Samuel Gargan

Mr. Todd.

Further Return To Question 481-13(5): Hay Job Evaluation System
Question 481-13(5): Hay Job Evaluation System
Item 6: Oral Questions

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John Todd Keewatin Central

Thank you, Mr. Speaker. Mr. Speaker, there have been workshops underway with our managers. All the information that I have provided the committee this morning will be provided to our managers and to our employees. As I indicated, I am confident that our managers will have all the information they require to answer the variety of questions that will undoubtedly arise from some of our employees. I want to say again for the record that I am encouraged with the fact that 68 percent of our employees will see an increase in their take-home pay and in some cases as I have said in response to an earlier question, it is significant. I hope that at the end of the day, we and the union, can come to some agreement so we can put this new money in the hands of our employees in April. Thank you.

Further Return To Question 481-13(5): Hay Job Evaluation System
Question 481-13(5): Hay Job Evaluation System
Item 6: Oral Questions

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The Speaker Samuel Gargan

Oral questions. Final supplementary, Mr. Miltenberger.

Supplementary To Question 481-13(5): Hay Job Evaluation System
Question 481-13(5): Hay Job Evaluation System
Item 6: Oral Questions

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Michael Miltenberger

Michael Miltenberger Thebacha

Thank you, Mr. Speaker. Understandably with a complex system for thousands of jobs there is going to be some discrepancies and I am sure people are very concerned. The Minister indicated briefly in one of his earlier comments that, in fact, there would be some sort of appeal process or review process. Could the Minister elaborate on this particular key process and possible timeframes that may be associated with that? Thank you.

Supplementary To Question 481-13(5): Hay Job Evaluation System
Question 481-13(5): Hay Job Evaluation System
Item 6: Oral Questions

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The Speaker Samuel Gargan

Mr. Todd.

Further Return To Question 481-13(5): Hay Job Evaluation System
Question 481-13(5): Hay Job Evaluation System
Item 6: Oral Questions

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John Todd Keewatin Central

As I said earlier, it is our intention to give this whole process its due. Which means that you cannot do it in a short timeframe and I indicated earlier that there will be a six-month process in place if there is a requirement for concerns and appeals, et cetera. There will be working committees formed. I hope the employee will go to his manager first and raise a concern. Then, he can obviously go

Further Return To Question 481-13(5): Hay Job Evaluation System
Question 481-13(5): Hay Job Evaluation System
Item 6: Oral Questions

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The Speaker Samuel Gargan

Oral questions. Mr. Krutko.

Question 482-13(5): Government Review Of Issues Raised
Item 6: Oral Questions

March 2nd, 1998

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David Krutko

David Krutko Mackenzie Delta

Thank you, Mr. Speaker. My question is to the Premier. It is in regard to my statement. In light of the motions and questions we ask through oral questions, written questions, motions, petitions or motions passed by committees in this legislature and also motions in committee of the whole, I would like to ask the Premier is there some person or persons within the government who take a look at all of these motions or questions asked by Members of this House to ensure that they are fully reviewed and that they are fully implemented. Whenever there is a budget looked at or there are supplementary appropriations or that there is going to be a change in a program, that they take into account these questions have been asked by the different representatives from the different ridings so they can develop these questions and concerns into any program changes or budget changes in this government?

Question 482-13(5): Government Review Of Issues Raised
Item 6: Oral Questions

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The Speaker Samuel Gargan

The Premier.

Return To Question 482-13(5): Government Review Of Issues Raised
Question 482-13(5): Government Review Of Issues Raised
Item 6: Oral Questions

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Don Morin Tu Nedhe

Thank you, Mr. Speaker. We have done that, in the past, on a number of occasions. We do consider the recommendations of the motions and questions the Members raise in this House. Cabinet and FMB coordinate the information coming out of this House, for example now from this session we will have people working on all the motions, as well as the questions and concerns Members raised and recommendations they make. We will consider those. Thank you.

Return To Question 482-13(5): Government Review Of Issues Raised
Question 482-13(5): Government Review Of Issues Raised
Item 6: Oral Questions

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The Speaker Samuel Gargan

Oral questions. Supplementary, Mr. Krutko.

Supplementary To Question 482-13(5): Government Review Of Issues Raised
Question 482-13(5): Government Review Of Issues Raised
Item 6: Oral Questions

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David Krutko

David Krutko Mackenzie Delta

Thank you, Mr. Speaker. In regard to the Executive directing the departments to ensure that they take into account these motions have been passed in the House, say the senior people in the departments, the deputy ministers or whoever, to make them aware there are these concerns raised by Members of this House to ensure that they do follow up and it is not just left at the top level, that the senior bureaucrats are also aware of it. What is the process of ensuring that happens?

Supplementary To Question 482-13(5): Government Review Of Issues Raised
Question 482-13(5): Government Review Of Issues Raised
Item 6: Oral Questions

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The Speaker Samuel Gargan

Mr. Morin

Further Return To Question 482-13(5): Government Review Of Issues Raised
Question 482-13(5): Government Review Of Issues Raised
Item 6: Oral Questions

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Don Morin Tu Nedhe

Thank you, Mr. Speaker. After the House prorogues, then I will be writing to the Ministers, specifically outlining the motions that are made in this House on the recommendations and asking them to consider it, to look at how it can be implemented, if it can be implemented. We do not know that yet and to give it due consideration. I will be doing that myself. Thank you.

Further Return To Question 482-13(5): Government Review Of Issues Raised
Question 482-13(5): Government Review Of Issues Raised
Item 6: Oral Questions

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The Speaker Samuel Gargan

Oral questions. Supplementary, Mr. Krutko.

Supplementary To Question 482-13(5): Government Review Of Issues Raised
Question 482-13(5): Government Review Of Issues Raised
Item 6: Oral Questions

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David Krutko

David Krutko Mackenzie Delta

Thank you, Mr. Speaker. My next concern in regard to motions is the only real area and opportunity we have for when we review the budget, where we try to give direction to the different departments, in reviewing each department. Motions are made to ensure departments take into account the concerns on a certain segment of the budget. In regard to motions passed in committee of the whole, can the premier tell me exactly how those motions are dealt with by the different departments to ensure they act on those motions?

Supplementary To Question 482-13(5): Government Review Of Issues Raised
Question 482-13(5): Government Review Of Issues Raised
Item 6: Oral Questions

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The Speaker Samuel Gargan

Mr. Morin.

Further Return To Question 482-13(5): Government Review Of Issues Raised
Question 482-13(5): Government Review Of Issues Raised
Item 6: Oral Questions

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Don Morin Tu Nedhe

Thank you, Mr. Speaker. The motions are passed in committee of the whole, usually when the department is presenting their budget. It is a motion of recommendation. I cannot tell the Member what is going to be the department's response. What I will do is track the motions that were made, make the Minister aware, remind him these motions were made, and I would like him to respond to the Member as well as to the committee that he works with. The committee of the whole is one of the processes, also, when Cabinet Members go in front of committees to review their budgets, at that time, there are usually concerns raised by Members, and we make adjustments at that time. Then we make further adjustments if at all possible. Thank you.

Further Return To Question 482-13(5): Government Review Of Issues Raised
Question 482-13(5): Government Review Of Issues Raised
Item 6: Oral Questions

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The Speaker Samuel Gargan

Oral questions. Final supplementary, Mr. Krutko.

Supplementary To Question 482-13(5): Government Review Of Issues Raised
Question 482-13(5): Government Review Of Issues Raised
Item 6: Oral Questions

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David Krutko

David Krutko Mackenzie Delta

Thank you, Mr. Speaker. My final concern is in regard to petitions where communities make an attempt to voice their opinions through petitions. I believe that is probably the strongest link communities have to this Legislature, is through a petition. One avenue that we have seen are communities sending their petitions in with concerns of certain issues. Can the Premier tell me exactly how petitions are dealt with to ensure that communities concerns are raised, not only through a petition, but ensuring departments follow through on

those petitions?

Supplementary To Question 482-13(5): Government Review Of Issues Raised
Question 482-13(5): Government Review Of Issues Raised
Item 6: Oral Questions

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The Speaker Samuel Gargan

Mr. Morin.