Daryl Dolynny

Thank you, Minister Miltenberger. To the motion. We’re going to go to the mover for closing comments. Mr. Bromley.

It’s promising to hear we are going to be dealing with this. As I said earlier, $1,000 penalties that we claim we are going to look at in the year to come or two years to come will add up with time.

I want to ask a question in line with what the Member for Weledeh started to ask about rates. Currently, the Government of the NWT pays a 79 cent per 100 dollar rate. There has been discussion and debate out there whether or not that rate is relatively too low given our claims growth, our claims experience, our penalties and the fact that the business communities have been supplementing that so...

Thank you, Ms. Bassi-Kellett. Ms. Bisaro.

Thank you, Madam Chair. I just want to continue on the same line of questioning as my colleague from Weledeh. This government has been known to have a very poor track record in the filing of claims for WSCC. Maybe if the Minister can elude as to how many penalties have been in the late filing in such claims in the last year.

Thank you, Ms. Bisaro. Mr. Abernethy.

Thank you, Madam Chair. Since last year there has been some shift scheduling software that has been added to the fold. This rolled out, I believe, in March of 2012. PeopleSoft, I believe, is the terminology that is being used at the department.

Can the department give us an idea, has this helped with the mitigation of overtime and with the help of calculations of time off in lieu?

Thank you, Mr. Abernethy. We’ll go to Deputy Minister Bassi-Kellett.

Madam Chair, if it meets and exceeds WSCC policies, then hopefully we won’t see the penalties that we have before us and a lot of the so-called charges to which have amounted substantially. Again, I wish the department well this year and hopefully we can mitigate some of those costs.

I am going to stay on the same page and ask another question. This has to do with an initiative and program that was established in 2011-12. The Minister made reference to it earlier, called the Associate Director/Superintendent Program, which was aimed to increase the number of Aboriginal employees in senior...

Thank you, Minister Abernethy. Thank you, Mr. Menicoche. Moving on with questions, I have Mr. Bromley.

I applaud the Minister and the department on putting duty to accommodate on the forefront, but I believe this is, by and large, more of a result of an injury and we are doing something with the person thereafter to accommodate. I am talking about preventing injury, the first part of the exercise. What tools or mechanisms? The Minister mentioned training and so forth.

When we have a company, if I use the word loosely, of 5,000 employees, how many safety officers dedicated to safety do we have working for the GNWT whose prime source and prime responsibility is the safety of our employees? Thank...