Thank you, Madam Chair. I will attempt to respond to some of the information and then have the deputy fill in, the deputy or the director fill in with some of the areas that we may be able to provide more specific details.
I guess to the overtime issue, we don’t have any overtime scheduled in any of our business planning or in the mains, and I guess that is sometimes part of the issue with some of the discussions that have been continuing in the House over the last few days. At some point there are individuals that are not able to come to work, especially in the 24/7 operations of the hospitals, the corrections facilities and so on, but the positions have to be there. So sometimes people are called back to work and do perform overtime and this has an impact on the positions, or relief workers are brought in that may actually have other jobs, so they are paid overtime, or employees are kept on after their regular shift to continue to fill the position of the individual that may not be there.
The more detail, I guess, on the employee survey 2012 and what we’re doing to address the areas of concern, I am going to ask the deputy to respond to that and provide a little bit of an update on the Occupational Health and Safety Program that we have recently announced in the House and have contracted a private company here in the city.
The Safe Disclosure Policy, the safe disclosure is something that we have negotiated with the northern workers’ union, the Union of Northern Workers, and that is something that will be going to the legislation. It is an act that will provide safe disclosure to public servants that work for the Government of the Northwest Territories. Anything outside of that, any whistleblower from outside the government, a person that is not employed here, we’re not covering in this legislation. It’s outside of our mandate for this particular issue.
With that, Madam Chair, I would ask either the director or deputy minister, maybe starting with the deputy, to provide some more detail on Member Dolynny’s questions.