Thank you, Mr. Speaker. Mr. Speaker, the community alcohol and drug workers are not health board staff in most cases. They are with non-government organizations. The non-government organizations are given a certain amount of funding to provide the service of drug and alcohol workers and it is those organizations that would set their rate of pay for those individuals. I am aware of some correspondence with the health board in Inuvik regarding this concern. The information that was provided was to inform the community organization that was involved with the alcohol and drug program that they could, in fact, raise the rate of pay. That would be taking money out of the rest of the program. Each region and community has worked out a formula what they would they would get in funding for community alcohol and drug programs. Those communities would decide what level of pay they would be paying their workers. Thank you, Mr. Speaker.
Floyd Roland on Question 20-13(8): Wages Of Alcohol And Drug Workers
In the Legislative Assembly on September 8th, 1999. See this statement in context.
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Question 20-13(8): Wages Of Alcohol And Drug Workers
Item 6: Oral Questions
September 7th, 1999
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