Thank you, Mr. Chair. On this one here, especially for the Employee and Family Assistance Program or staff with less training or interdepartmental training development, especially again going back to some of the benefits for the staff in terms of families who may have gone through a rough time throughout the year that they need extra days to get support or support their families. Is there extra time without them dipping into their days that they earn or things like that? Some families have special leave for grieving that they give them a certain amount of time, like three days. It is really short. Is there any type of flexibility? I might be getting into some other issues that I am not aware of. I guess that is where the compassion comes in and some of the care comes into families who are going through a hard time, especially in the small communities where it is expected of people of members of the family to be there when they are going through a hard time. They have a tough decision to make in terms of their job and employability after they come back from such a tragic event if they are going to be penalized or whatever. Is there some flexibility in terms of having special consideration to these employees, especially in smaller communities? It may be true also for the larger centres, because I am not living here in Yellowknife or Hay River. I don't know. The communities I represent, in our culture, consideration is given to employees, especially to family members who are suffering at certain points of the events there. Thank you, Mr. Chair.
Norman Yakeleya on Item 19: Consideration In Committee Of The Whole Of Bills And Other Matters
In the Legislative Assembly on February 24th, 2006. See this statement in context.
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 23rd, 2006
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