Thank you, Madam Chair. We did look at setting up that way. The recommendations from Hackett were in part to not do that for a number of reasons. So I'll just give you some of those reasons. On the pay side, most of our pay comes now through self-service. So the basic information and the shifts are entered straight in by the employees. The specialized information is interpretation of the Collective Agreement and that support is provided by our human resource officers and managers who are assigned by department so that they can be expert and gain additional knowledge in the area of justice or in the area of health services. So we do provide it that way. It also allows us by ensuring we have extra staff who know how to deal with, for example, someone in Justice and how they get paid. If that one person in the past when they did assign it by department, if that person was away, we didn't have that expertise. Or if they moved on to another job, we didn't have that expertise. This way we can make sure that we have three, four, five people who have the knowledge to deal with a specific type of shift worker or specific type of seasonal worker so that it's not lost in one individual and we can spread that knowledge.
Ms. Elkin on Committee Motion 50-15(5): Implementation Of The Third-party Accountability Framework, Carried
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Committee Motion 50-15(5): Implementation Of The Third-party Accountability Framework, Carried
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