Thank you, Mr. Speaker. Mr. Speaker, the problem arises when we have an individual or, in this case, elders who would come to work for a school board or an agency and they would only come as and when, once every few weeks, once a month or maybe even less than that, depending on what information they were going to provide. That is a difficult portion because our systems right now, as we run our payroll system, do not adequately address that. That is an issue. We have been trying to work with Education around this area to accommodate the request. Part of the problem, as we work our system and try to be more accountable with how we pay individuals, is that if somebody comes in and works for half a day and not a full day, then we have to go back and try to recover that. It makes it very difficult. So they are trying to work on an issue of getting some advance notice of who would be coming in and what time they would come in, and then we could try to work around that issue. We are going to try to work and reduce the amount of time. I am not sure if we can get it right down to a one-day turnaround as was done in the past. We are working to try to reduce the time from less than six weeks. Thank you.
Floyd Roland on Question 10-15(5): Compensation Policies For Elders Providing Services To Government
In the Legislative Assembly on May 31st, 2006. See this statement in context.
Further Return To Question 10-15(5): Compensation Policies For Elders Providing Services To Government
Question 10-15(5): Compensation Policies For Elders Providing Services To Government
Item 6: Oral Questions
May 30th, 2006
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