Thank you, Mr. Speaker. I appreciate my colleague's clarification of the issue. I believe he is talking, to some extent, about the concern raised previously by Mr. Erasmus with respect to the benchmarks and the positions we took to evaluate that. We are in the process right now of talking to our staff and our management team who are talking to our individual employees who have some concerns with respect to the job evaluation system. Look, we know that 68 percent are going to get an increase in the job evaluation system. That means that 32 percent are not. So, that 32 percent are going to be concerned. There may be some concern with those who actually are going to see an improvement and increase in their position. We are trying to address the issues on a one to one basis with the employees, through our management team, in relationship to some of the changes that have been made and some of the concerns that have been raised. For example, in some of the communities on the janitorial side, I know there have been some concerns there. We have to address these. I said in earlier discussion, we did the 5,000 job positions. I am not saying today that it is a perfect world. What I am saying is there are going to be some glitches, and we are going to try to work these through. I want constructive, well laid-out debate on where the areas of contention are, and we will deal with it. We have asked the UNW to work with us and to give us the kind of detailed concerns they have with respect to the job evaluation process. I have said in writing, which I am prepared to table in this House, I have instructed my staff to work with the UNW to try to reach an appropriate compromise where we can. It is not going to be a perfect world, but the door is open. We are trying to work these problems that we have through. I would suggest to you again that it is understandable that some employees out there are not going to be happy with it given that some, in fact, although they see no cash reduction, there is a pay level reduction for about 32 percent of the employees and an increase of 68 percent. Thank you.
John Todd on Question 501-13(5): Collective Bargaining Settlement Offer
In the Legislative Assembly on May 20th, 1998. See this statement in context.
Further Return To Question 501-13(5): Collective Bargaining Settlement Offer
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