January 9, 2008
Compensation issues still a major concern for parliamentary committee
The Standing Committee on Government Operations and Estimates is once again looking at the problems facing the federal government compensation community.
With the House of Commons back in session, the newly appointed Standing Committee on Government Operations and Estimates (OGGO) is once again looking at problems facing the federal government compensation community.
In October, the re-appointed chair of the Committee, Diane Marleau (L- Sudbury), met with PSAC members and AS Compensation Advisors Jill Ronan, Michael Brandimore and Diane Melançon, to discuss the continued lack of action by the employer on several aspects of the problems facing the compensation community, in particular pay and classification.
On December 12th, the Committee called as witnesses several officials from the Canada Public Service Agency (CPSA) and Treasury Board. Members of Parliament questioned the officials on continued problems with paying people on time, on why the CPSA has refused to move forward on some of the recommendations in the report from the PSAC’s AS Roundtable Report, and on recent internal survey results showing that only 66% of departments are meeting timelines for service delivery.
The full transcript of the session is available for viewing on the Parliamentary web site.
The PSAC continues to encourage all members who are experiencing problems getting paid on time, as well as AS Compensation Advisors frustrated with the lack of action on the recruitment and retention problems facing the community, to contact their Members of Parliament, particularly those sitting on the Standing Committee on Government Operations and Estimates. Keeping this issue in front of the political leadership of the government is key to getting action on the issues which PSAC and AS members have been raising.
Follow the links to get the email addresses of the members of parliament who sit on the committee.
AS Compensation Advisors are also encouraged to get involved in mobilization work around collective bargaining for the Program and Administration (PA) bargaining unit. Issues of pay relatively are a key issue for the entire table. Sign up to receive regular bargaining bulletins for the PA group, or visit the PSAC web site for news and information.
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Date Modified : 2008/02/06
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