Thank you, Mr. Chairman. The Member is correct; there is a constant workload in this section. It’s a heavy workload in this section. It tends to build up. It comes in waves. We did put in a new, or, rather, some staff in there to help deal with the tremendous amount of backlog that existed and I’m happy to report that currently we’re down to 300 files outstanding or backlogged in this section. So there has been some significant improvement in that area. That number will shrink and swell given just the realities of employee terminations, final pays, all those types of things that need to be done. As more casuals come in, the demand decreases because there’s a lot of final pays that have to be done on casuals, so it does ebb and flow, but we have managed to get the backlog down to 300, which is significant.
Glen Abernethy on Consideration in Committee of the Whole of Bills and Other Matters
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Consideration in Committee of the Whole of Bills and Other Matters
Consideration in Committee of the Whole of Bills and Other Matters
May 27th, 2012
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