Translation of "Agent ministériel de rémunération et de contrôle " (French → English) :

(Return tabled) Question No. 156 Hon. Maria Minna: With regard to pay equity and the initiatives proposed by the government that include education, specialized mediation assistance, and compliance monitoring: (a) what educational materials on pay equity have been produced; (b) which federal departments, agencies, and crown corporations were such educational materials sent to; (c) what site visits have taken place to further inform the employers, chief compensation executive, compensation analysts, and employee representatives of their statutory obligations; (d) has pay equity training for conc ...[+++]iliation or mediation officers taken place and, if so, how many officers underwent training, when did it take place and how long was it; (e) have monitoring visits been conducted throughout the implementation process to reinforce and encourage voluntary compliance and collect information and, if so, how many have occurred and where did they occur; (f) has the Labour Program consulted with key stakeholders to gather their views on the effective implementation of these equal pay measures and, if so, what are the names of the stakeholders consulted and when were they consulted; (g) has the Canadian Human Rights Commission been invited to participate in these consultations; and (h) has the Canadian Human Rights Commission participated in these consultations?

11. Notes the Court's observations with regard to the new computer application for the calculation of staff remunerations and also the reply of the competent Parliament service underlining that systematic ex-post controls have been in place since March 2006;

Their remuneration shall not depend on the number of tests carried out or on the results of such tests.

The plan is to reimburse: - 20 % of the remuneration of the agents occupying the supplementary posts assigned to the tasks of carrying out checks and detecting fraud, - 33 % of the cost of training and briefing those agents (information programmes, the cost of disseminating specialized information), (1) Monitoring could cover aid granted per hectare, set-aside aid, measures to assist winegrowing and the fruit and vegetable sector, storage aid for dried grapes, premiums granted in the sheepmeat and goatmeat sectors, premiums for tobacco and aid for oilseeds. - 33 % of the cost of equipping the agents (data processing and office equipment, ...[+++] etc.), - 33 % of the costs arising from the monitoring work entrusted to the approved surveillance firms and laboratories given the task of verifying the conformity of products on export and on import into third countries.

Mr. David Thompson: That's the top pay rate for a pre-board screening agent.

If I could highlight the four major tools, the first one was a process to designate employees in certain work, and in so doing prevent them from striking where the work is considered to affect the safety and security of Canadians; the second was directing arbitration boards to consider four specified factors in making awards on compensation and other conditions of employment; the third major tool was allowing the employer to keep sole control of staffing and termination rules and how work would be organized and valued; and the fourth one, which is far more recent, from 1992, was the federal government can ask cabinet ...[+++]to have a minister order a vote on its last offer to the bargaining agent.