Thank you, Mr. Speaker. Mr. Speaker, my questions are for the Minister responsible for the Financial Management Board Secretariat. They go back to an issue I brought up last week, and that has to do with two of my constituents who are both having a tremendous amount of difficulty trying to retire from the Government of the Northwest Territories. One had given four months' notice, and the other gave five months' notice. In one case, a meeting took place four days prior to retirement, and in the other case, a week after retirement. The senior pay and benefits officer actually showed up to the one meeting with forms in hand already pre-dated, pre-signed, and giving my constituent not enough time to go over it or even, for that matter, to understand what was happening. I asked this question last week and I am going to ask it again today.
I got a phone call today from my constituent, very upset with the Government of the Northwest Territories, having only gotten paid for 13 weeks' severance when they thought they were entitled to 30 weeks' severance pay. This is a situation for a number of retirees. When I talked about those forms that the senior pay and benefits officer had brought to the meeting, they state "resignation" and not "retirement." How does FMBS communicate to our employees? We have a number of them that are going to be retiring here within the next five years. How do we communicate how to retire from the GNWT? Do we just leave it up to employees to read that big thick Collective Agreement? Thank you, Mr. Speaker.