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Item 19: Consideration In Committee Of The Whole Of Bills And Other Matters
Item 19: Consideration In Committee Of The Whole Of Bills And Other Matters

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The Chair

The Chair David Krutko

Community health programs, not previously authorized, $1.3 million. Mr. Miltenberger.

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Michael Miltenberger

Michael Miltenberger Thebacha

Thank you, Mr. Chairman. Cabinet seems to be in a hurry here, so I will make my questions short. By taking two job classifications, the nurses and social workers, and changing them, is there a ripple effect in terms of costs and upward pressure on all the other salaries? This Hay Plan system was supposed to bring all the different jobs into line. If, by taking two out in an arbitrary fashion, have we skewed the whole system and is it going to put upward pressure across the board on all the costs and all the job classifications? Thank you.

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The Chair

The Chair David Krutko

Minister of Finance, Mr. Handley.

Item 19: Consideration In Committee Of The Whole Of Bills And Other Matters
Item 19: Consideration In Committee Of The Whole Of Bills And Other Matters

February 25th, 2000

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Joe Handley

Joe Handley Weledeh

Thank you, Mr. Chairman. The government continually does interdepartmental assessments of the potential impact of any increases to particular categories of workers. In this case, any kind of impact that there would have been, I do not believe that there was any, would have been taken into consideration as we did the interdepartmental checks.

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Item 19: Consideration In Committee Of The Whole Of Bills And Other Matters

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The Chair

The Chair David Krutko

Mr. Miltenberger.

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Michael Miltenberger

Michael Miltenberger Thebacha

My recollection of the overall new job evaluation was negotiated with the UNW to, in fact, address one of the outstanding issues in terms of pay equity. This change was made subsequent to that. Is there a role for the UNW, or does that only happen during the collective bargaining process? Is there an ongoing agreement and a working committee that keeps track of this to make sure it is done in such a way that it does not get, if I may use the word in its proper intention, bastardized so it would lose its benefit? Thank you.

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Item 19: Consideration In Committee Of The Whole Of Bills And Other Matters

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The Chair

The Chair David Krutko

Mr. Handley.

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Joe Handley

Joe Handley Weledeh

Mr. Chairman, there is a provision in the Collective Agreement for dealing with disputes with regard to this matter. The government is going through the process of reviewing the job classifications. We have already done the excluded ones and are now working on the unionized positions.

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The Chair

The Chair David Krutko

We are dealing with page 8, community health programs, $1.3 million.

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Some Hon. Members

Agreed.

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The Chair

The Chair David Krutko

Total department, not previously authorized, $1.562 million.

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Some Hon. Members

Agreed.

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The Chair

The Chair David Krutko

Page 9, Justice, operations and maintenance, law enforcement, not previously authorized, $65,000.

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Some Hon. Members

Agreed.

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The Chair

The Chair David Krutko

Community justice and corrections, not previously authorized, $246,967.

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Some Hon. Members

Agreed.

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The Chair

The Chair David Krutko

Total department, not previously authorized, $311,967.

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Some Hon. Members

Agreed.

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The Chair

The Chair David Krutko

Page 10, Education, Culture and Employment, operations and maintenance, advance education and careers, not previously authorized, $300,000 negative.

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Some Hon. Members

Agreed.

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The Chair

The Chair David Krutko

Total department, not previously authorized, $300,000 negative.

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Some Hon. Members

Agreed.

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Item 19: Consideration In Committee Of The Whole Of Bills And Other Matters

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The Chair

The Chair David Krutko

Page 11, Transportation, operations and maintenance, airports, not previously authorized, $358,937.

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Some Hon. Members

Agreed.

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The Chair

The Chair David Krutko

Motor vehicles, not previously authorized, $114,000.