Mr. Speaker, the bottom line is we meet all of our payroll obligations. Someone may leave, for example, at a higher salary than we fill the position with. So we will have some savings in there. We may be paying one person $80,000 and the next guy who comes in with no experience gets $70,000. We don't put that money into some special account somewhere. We meet our obligations. If a department has a surplus at the end of the year, those surpluses come back into the consolidated revenue fund. The obligation we have as a government is to meet our obligations through the collective agreement. We don't set this money aside into some secret fund as the Member seems to think we might be doing. We don't do that. Thank you.
Joe Handley on Question 61-14(6): Employees' Mandatory Leave Pay Deductions
In the Legislative Assembly on February 20th, 2003. See this statement in context.
Further Return To Question 61-14(6): Employees' Mandatory Leave Pay Deductions
Question 61-14(6): Employees' Mandatory Leave Pay Deductions
Item 7: Oral Questions
February 19th, 2003
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