Thank you, Ms. Lee. Minister Handley.
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Voytilla
Thank you, Mr. Chairman. We have two basic types of arbitration. We have one category we call expedited arbitration, which is for simpler cases where we try to group a number of arbitration cases together and have them held expeditiously by a single arbitrator. Then there are full arbitration cases which are usually the more complex ones. They vary quite substantially, from ones that we can get done in a few hours to ones that will take several days to work through. So there is no real norm, it really depends on the facts of the case.
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Sandy Lee Range Lake
Thank you very much. The detailed information that I have here has $20,000, $10,000 and a $5,000 reduction out of the $269,000 that we're discussing, and it has to do with LR&CS management under labour relations. I have no idea what that is, so may I ask the Minister as to what that is? Thank you.
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Sandy Lee Range Lake
Thank you, Mr. Chairman. It says that the supply spending will be cut by $20,000 and contract spending will be cut by $10,000 and purchase services will be cut by $5,000 for a total of $35,000. Could I ask the Minister as to what sort of supplies or contracts or purchase services we're talking about here that this section in this division in this department would typically be spending? Thank you.
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Joe Handley Weledeh
Mr. Chairman, the supplies would be typical office supplies. The contract services would be things like hiring experts in the pay equity issues, job evaluation issues and so on. Thank you.
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Sandy Lee Range Lake
Thank you, Mr. Chairman. This says here that we're going to be cutting $10,000 out of supplies, so I have to ask how much do they have budgeted in the first place for supplies, and how would a cut of $10,000 to buy supplies have no impact? Are we going to have people not having pencils, pens and paper to work on?
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Joe Handley Weledeh
Mr. Chairman, when there is a shortage of money, we have to ask all people to practice restraint, and the labour relations and compensation services section is no different than others. So they have chosen to find their money out of their supplies budget. They have a supplies budget probably somewhere in the neighbourhood of $100,000.
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Sandy Lee Range Lake
Thank you. It's very good to know... Lots of staff here; I'm sorry. Mr. Chairman, the next item in this budget, the detailed information says equal pay section of the labour relations will have a reduction in travel for equal pay matters and legal contracting spending for $20,000 total, I think. We know that just earlier this evening we passed legislation having to do with the Public Service Act amendment for equal pay for work of equal value. What kind of impact would this have? Thank you.
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Joe Handley Weledeh
Mr. Chair, the expectation is that the equal pay section will be able to handle this and that it should have minimal impact.
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The Chair Paul Delorey
Thank you. Labour relations and compensation services, not previously authorized, negative $269,000.
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Agreed.
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Sandy Lee Range Lake
Thank you, Mr. Chairman. The information I have under government accounting does not... Sorry, I was reading the wrong line here. We're cutting $27,000 out of GA management. Could I ask the Minister as to what GA management is? Thank you.
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