2011-01-28 Cost of Government Commission Minutes

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MS. NICHOLSON: I think you’re right. It self-evident. So, how would you recommend then that we sort of frame that overall introductory sentence?Recommend that they consider the following as MR. ARMOUR: Recommend a complete review of the pay package based on hourly work, and here are some suggestions. And then list the ones. A little bit more elaborate than that statement though. MS. NICHOLSON: It’s work hours and pay. It’s work hours more than pay actually because we’re really not saying anywhere that people should be get pay cuts. So, it’s really MR. ARMOUR: No, when I said pay, I meant the whole package –benefits, everything together. Cause you’re recommending change in work hours, doing a different way of overtime, just assuming that we’re keeping all of these for now. So you’re talking about almost everything in here about a persons pay and their work hours, benefits, allowing them to take time off, so my opening statement was A review of the complete compensation package for the employees. If you want to take pay out of that, that’s all right. But you’re addressing almost everything that has to do with that. MS. PROVALENKO: They’re also addressing a certain dollar amount too because if you recommend the overtime based on 40 hours versus eight hours per day. MS. NICHOLSON: Okay, use that as a sort of a summary statement? Again, we’re going to be able to revisit this over and over again. MS. PROVALENKO: Maybe we should start out with something like this now, and then as we go on, because then it becomes clearer and clearer, and we can readdress it, the initial statement. MS. NICHOLSON: Okay, so under that then at this point, the rest of these things will follow. And I’ll just read them by numbers and we’ll say we want to add some other language to that or that’s fine as is. Item 1. Anything else you want to add to item 1? Item 2. Item 3. This one we want to add something to this? I think it needs some explanation. What are we really trying to say? Use flex time to reduce overtime cost. MR. ARMOUR: I think you’re trying to say, Use flex time meaning time off in lieu of overtime pay is what the statement was saying. MS. NICHOLSON: Is this the same as letting them work like 12 hours one day, and four hours the next? MR. ARMOUR: I’m not sure what the original intention of the statement was but some companies allow flex time like if you had to work on the weekends for some reason, then you’re allowed a day or two off in the next month in lieu of getting overtime pay. But I think this can only be for salary employees. 22