And, clearly this kind of thing, this undue compensation had been taxing the entire Ministry, and today the CEO, Sharon Ramclam says she had to put a stop to compensation payouts:...
Sharon Ramclam, CEO - Lands Department
"On the matter of compensation, I have belabored this point many times over at the CEO caucus and it's very frustrating. When I took over the ministry in March 2014 and compensation requests were presented to me, my briefing from the legal counsel and the commissioner on those cases was essentially thorough and in many instances were as a result of duplications. In October 2015, I decided to suspend the processing of any new compensation as a result of alleged duplication and requested the intervention of the office of the solicitor general to give an interpretation on the process for dealing with compensations. We proceeded to honor those compensations for court judgments but any new voluntary compensation were suspended. In January 2016, I assembled a very small team in the ministry to scrutinize all compensation files in order for us to identify what gave rise to those compensation and what we need to do to arrest the situation. We are still quantifying the total amount outstanding in terms of the compensation. I can tell you that there are numerous cases that have come to my attention. We have recognized that there are several instances where some individuals were overpaid and we are investigating those matters to determine again, as the minister said, how we will deal with those and of course also the numerous cases that have come to our attention. We are looking at hundreds of thousands of files but we are resolved and steadfast in our efforts to make sure that we address the situation."
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