Date: October 28, 2005
TO: Compensation Managers
Subject: Compensation Standard Benefits Letters and New
Chair
This message is to provide an update on Compensation Standard Benefits
Letters. The latest figures indicate that more than 400,000 visitors use
the Web site each year. We thank you for your support. During the past year
all "Taken on Strength" letters have been revised and several new letters
were created under that heading. We are now working on updating "Termination
of Employment" letters, which account for some 38 letters on the menu. We hope
to finish these reviews by the end of this fiscal year. This
will be followed by a review of "Temporarily Struck Off Strength" letters.
We very much appreciate your comments and your contributions to maintaining
the quality of a very useful tool. In order to ensure the timely
updating of letters, it would be preferable that all comments or suggestions
from compensation advisers be sent to their supervisors. We have found that
some comments were erroneous and referred to interpretations.
Supervisors should forward comments to their departmental compensation manager
who will ensure that the comment is properly related to updating of a letter
and not to an interpretation. Departmental managers will forward any
required changes to us.
If you are using letters that are not located on the HR Connexions Web
site, it would be appreciated if you could send them to us in order that they
can be posted on the site.
I would like to express my thanks to Hélène Desforges, Policy Analyst,
Treasury Board Secretariat; Lynne Plouffe, Supervisor and Compensation and
Benefits Verifier, Public Safety and Emergency Preparedness Canada; Dianne
Desjardins, Senior Project Officer, Public Service Human Resources Management
Agency of Canada for their generous support and contribution to
the committee in the past. Welcome back to Pierrette Lemay, Policy Analyst,
Treasury Board Secretariat.
Our new committee is made up of five members, Pierrette Lemay, Policy Analyst, Labour Relations Operations, Treasury Board Secretariat; Debbie Perkins, Team Leader of Pensions & Insurances, Compensation Operations, Transport Canada; Nathalie St-Onge, Senior Project Officer, Capacity, Learning and Cultural Change, Public Service Human Resources Management Agency of Canada; Margaret Walton, Policy Analyst, Pay Administration, Labour Relations Operations, Treasury Board Secretariat and me, Lyne Trépanier, Manager, Compensation and Benefits, Department of Finance, Treasury Board Secretariat and the Public Service Human Resources Management Agency of Canada.
If you have not had an opportunity to make use of the Compensation Standard
Benefits Letters, I invite you to consult them via:
http://www.tbs-sct.gc.ca/hr-rh/sbl-ltas/Comp_std_e.asp
You can send your comments or suggestions about the letters by email or FAX
to Margaret Walton or me. Here are the contact details:
Margaret Walton
Walton.Margaret@tbs-sct.gc.ca
FAX (613) 952-3009
Lyne Trépanier
Trepanier.Lyne@fin.gc.ca
FAX (613) 943-1156
Original signed by
Lyne Trépanier
Chair,
Compensation Standard Benefits Letters Committee
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