Thank you. Not every single year, but I’ve been an MLA close to 11 years now and I’ve tried to hire a summer student some summers, I’ve hired not only two but I’ve had three and let me tell you, it’s quite a treadmill, if I may say, trying to find work for three students, but I know they need the cash. So that now leads me into my next question, which is, is the Department of Human Resources willing to consider maybe a job sharing policy that splits some of the jobs? I mean, it’s not for me to say how we should split them, but by way of example, as the Minister just said earlier, they had 700 applications and they hired about 300-and-some students. My goodness, if we had job shared some of these we could have hired all the students, and at the same time, we would have given them enough money to be able to reach out in the private sector and sort of help them as well. In other words, we’d be helping the students get experience, we wouldn’t be stealing them all from the private sector and we’d be giving more students more opportunities. Would the Minister tell me about a policy or if he’d be interested in coming up with some type of policy like that?
Robert Hawkins on Question 194-17(5): Summer Student Employment Program
In the Legislative Assembly on February 26th, 2014. See this statement in context.
Question 194-17(5): Summer Student Employment Program
Oral Questions
February 25th, 2014
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