Mr. Chairman, this is something that I'd like the Minister and the board to really look at with a keener eye. I have a constituent who, in, I think, the 8 or 10 years that they've had ongoing claims and situations before the WCB, they've gone through something like, I think it's almost one sort of client relations officer or claims officer. I'm sorry; I don't know just what they're called, but just about one a year. I think it's been a major factor in some injured worker's frustrations and difficulties. The front line, the people who are servicing their file, change so frequently and they have such different levels of competency, skill or experience. That is one of the reasons why I feel this is a very important recommendation, that regardless of just the...Sorry, not just "the" but the sensitivity training and this kind of thing, that as thoroughly as possible, the policies, the practices, the situations that are particular and peculiar to the North and to Nunavut, that when we put somebody on the telephone or in an office or on a meeting with a client, that they are, to the very best of our ability, tuned right up and ready to go to work and there's as little doubt as we can possibly allow in their ability to service the client from the first day they're on the job. Very important to building the credibility, and I'd like to suggest, Mr. Chair, to the efficiency and the overall cost of resolving the worker's situation, getting them back in their workforce and hopefully saving the fund some money, Mr. Chair.
Bill Braden on Item 16: Consideration In Committee Of The Whole Of Bills And Other Matters
In the Legislative Assembly on March 7th, 2007. See this statement in context.
Item 16: Consideration In Committee Of The Whole Of Bills And Other Matters
Item 16: Consideration In Committee Of The Whole Of Bills And Other Matters
March 6th, 2007
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