2021 Gender and Harassment Advisory Committee Annual Report - B Division
Background
2020 has been a very unique year. With the onslaught of the COVID-19 pandemic, the Division's priorities quickly switched focus to employee protection, safety, and wellness while ensuring our operations remained intact.
A year later we are still not at 100% capacity in terms of workplace repatriation. Many employees, especially in the operations support and administrative roles, continue to work remotely. Consequently, bodies such as our GHAC and other councils have been put on hold until such time as capacity can be once more returned to normal.
Generally, we are looking at meeting the objectives we set in our last year's Annual Report.
Objectives
- Recruit and educate new members of GHAC as per the Terms of Reference.
Current status
- Meetings to be scheduled on a quarterly basis for 2021.
- While not ideal, teleconferencing will likely be the method.
- New GHAC members are still required as some have transferred, or retired.
Next steps
- Recruit additional members and Alternates.
- Work to educate employees on the importance of GHAC to minimize the perception that it is a "make-work committee".
- Develop a Divisional communications strategy to educate the employees on the need for GHAC and how it can improve their workplace.
- Encourage a more robust communications strategy from the national level to allow Divisions to educate its membership and to recruit/retain employees with an interest in advancing this committee.
Recommendation(s)
Encourage a more robust communications strategy from the national level to allow Divisions to educate its membership and to recruit/retain employees with an interest in advancing this committee.
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