Thank you, Mr. Chairman. Maybe if I could, I believe the Minister has talked about the backlog and that was a big issue years ago. Just a quick question, is there still a backlog and if there is, when might you be finished dealing with the backlog of files at Human Resources? Thank you.
Debates of Feb. 23rd, 2011
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Bob McLeod Yellowknife South
Thank you, Mr. Chairman. I think we have to change our terminology. We are still calling it a backlog, but we recognize that every pay cycle it adds to our backlog. But from the original, when we consolidated Human Resources into one department and all the files were turned over, I believe there was something like 2,500 transactions that were backlogged. There probably has been another 2,600 transactions, what we call adding to our workload, but having said that, we have been able to deal with all of that and what we are still calling a backlog is about 936 now, so we are going to change our terminology and we are going to call it our workload, not a backlog anymore.
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The Chair David Krutko
Page 3-17, activity summary, human resource strategy and policy, operations expenditure summary, $6.830 million. Agreed?
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Moving on to page 3-18, information item, human resource strategy and policy, active positions. Agreed?
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Moving on to page 3-21, activity summary, management recruitment services, operations expenditure summary, $3.969 million. Agreed?
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Agreed. Moving on to page 3-22, information item, management recruitment services, active positions. Agreed?
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Moving on to page 3-25, activity summary, corporate human resources, operations expenditure summary, $12.289 million. Agreed?
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Moving on to page 3-26, activity summary, corporate human resources, grants and contributions, contributions, $115,000. Agreed?
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Moving on to page 3-27, information item, corporate human resources, active positions. Agreed?
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Moving on to page 3-29, activity summary, employee services, operations expenditure summary, $14.099 million. Mr. Yakeleya.
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Norman Yakeleya Sahtu
Thank you, Mr. Chairman. Just a few questions on the benefits. The Sahtu has a special day designated as Sahtu Day, June 23
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lot of employees from the Government of the Northwest Territories are Aboriginal and Sahtu beneficiaries and this comes up every year in terms of them taking this day off. They are either told to take it through other benefits that they have incurred or they are asked to look at other initiatives. Is this something that the government would look at to honour Sahtu land claim day because if it hasn’t, then this year it will come up again. Some of the employees would ask that they could ask the government to allow them to take the day off without taking any kind of special leave that they have. I just want to be prepared to tell my constituents when I need to tell them when they do contact me on this issue.
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Bob McLeod Yellowknife South
Thank you, Mr. Chairman. I was going to say I will authorize a day off for them, but my understanding is that they are entitled to civic leave, all the recognition of Aboriginal days, all days through the Sahtu land claims are recognized as civic, but I will confirm that for the Member.