PRQC Meeting Minutes - July 7, 2023

TIME

ITEM

PRESENTER

9:00

Welcome and Opening Remarks

Thomas and Norma had a meeting (July 6) with 3 members not classified adequately.

Thomas would like to hold a meeting with someone from Classification, Bargaining and Consultation to help dissect what are the real issues around this.

PRQC plans to get a workshop on this topic.

Thomas

9:15-9:30

Review and approval of Agenda

Everyone approves the agenda. Some discussions have been added for later today.

All

9:30-10:30

Navigar presentation to PRQC members from Lora Ricci and Salah Bazina

PRQC secured a 20 minutes presentation at Steward Council in the fall focusing on performance review, career progression

Thomas to work on the one-pager for the consultation team on performance evaluation

Thomas invited Salah and Lora to collaborate in the creation of the presentation.

Lora/Salah
Guest speaker

10:30-11 am

Health Break

11:00

Report from the Board

The Committee would need clarification if the NPSW is still a responsibility of the PRQC and where to forward the future communications in order to get approval.

PRQC 3 main goals:

1. Interaction with the Board of Directors
   a. Provide regular reports
   b. Request to make a presentation with the BoD with Q&A
2. Interaction with Bargaining Groups and Consultation Team
   a. Interact with Bargaining Groups and review CA to provide guidance  on language related to Professional Recognition and Qualifications.
   b. Interact with Consultation Teams to discuss challenges and opportunities in relation to Professional Recognition and Qualifications.
3. Interaction with Stewards and Members
   a. Improve the visibility of the PRQC and prepare communication material to empower members to promote their Professional Standards and Status.
   b. Review the opportunity to improve the Performance Review process.

Thomas brings up the issue that we are not getting all the participation of members/friends. Joanne suggests that when a member can’t participate, the cost would be deferred for a friend of the committee.

Prepare the 3 business cases to be presented at the next Board meeting.

Norma

11:00

Review of Working groups on Bargaining, PRQC promotion and steward/consultation

All

12:00-13:00

Lunch

13:00-15:00

Working groups

Phil and David's works:
Timeline of the presentation: 15 minutes presentation on PRQC, 7-8 minutes on Navigar, 15 minutes Q&A

PRQC Presentation would include an introduction, our mandate, committee members, 2023-2024 PRQC Workplan including our 3 main goals.

Joanne and Gerry's works:

NR and SH collective agreements are the most comprehensible. SH would be used as a model.

NR's collective agreement has expired.

SP is in bargaining.
SH will soon provide new language: number of requests, nature of the request, number of approvals/denials and reasons for denial.

AFS needs to be added to the list.

All

15:00 –15:30 pm

Health Break

15:30-16:30

Review and discussion

Next meeting(s

• PRQC - Marielle to make a Doodle
  Early September would be best.
• AGM
• AC & SBC

Dates to be added once Thomas recovers all of them

All

16:30

Adjournment