Thank you, Mr. Speaker. Let me try to give you a hypothetical situation. Employee A being under the old system, pay level 25, step 3, and receives X amount of dollars. The reclassification takes him or her down to pay level 23, step 3, so it will be a significant drop in wages. We red circled that position, and as long as that employee remains in that position, his pay level, as he currently has, pay level 25, step 3, remains in place. On top of that, he gets the additional two percent increase, any northern allowance increase, any bonuses, et cetera. What we are saying is, with any existing employees in those jobs, there will be no cash reduction on their salary while they remain in those jobs. If that employee was to leave to go to another job, move along, and a new employee was to come in, it would be at the new pay level. As I said in my statement earlier, it is a win/win situation for everybody. I know it has caused some anguish, to not only my honourable colleague, Mr. Erasmus, but Mr. Roland spoke about it, so I hope this clarifies it. There will be no cash loss, whatever the existing pay level was. Should they be classified down as some of them are, it will not affect that individual at the job as long as they remain in the job. Thank you.
John Todd on Question 536-13(5): GNWT Final Settlement Offer
In the Legislative Assembly on May 25th, 1998. See this statement in context.
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