SK: Committee Backs Extending Saskatoon Transit Sick Leave Consultant

    Sept. 12, 2017
    A Saskatoon city council committee backs extending a pilot project by an external consultant to help manage employee absences, despite a union’s concern the work duplicates existing resources.

    Source Saskatoon Starphoenix

    A Saskatoon city council committee backs extending a pilot project by an external consultant to help manage employee absences, despite a union’s concern the work duplicates existing resources.

    Members of the environment, utilities and corporate services committee voted unanimously on Monday to recommend to city council that a one-year experiment to manage absences by Saskatoon Transit employees be extended by another year.

    Amalgamated Transit Union (ATU) Local 615 president Jim Yakubowski appeared before the committee to argue against the move. Yakubowski said transit employees do not have an absenteeism problem and a program is already in place to handle employee absences.

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