Plan for addressing workplace review unclear as N.W.T. clerk returns to work
CBC
One of the most powerful unelected officials in the N.W.T. is expected to return to his post this week — though what kind of changes will be rolled out at his office remain unclear.
Tim Mercer, clerk of the Legislative Assembly, has been on leave for eight months while Ottawa-based Quintet Consulting investigated allegations of bullying that had been made against him, and carried out a review of his office's workplace environment.
An email obtained by CBC News from the assembly's Speaker and MLA for the Mackenzie Delta, Frederick Blake Jr., said Mercer would be returning to the role on Thursday. That's the same day the second session was expected to resume, until it was postponed to Oct. 21.
Through the course of its review, Quintet found that the Office of the Clerk was not "in an overall or broad sense, a toxic or poisoned" workplace.
However, it did conclude there were "important problems" that, left unaddressed, "are likely to continue to negatively affect the health of the workplace for an increasingly large number of employees."
The full review report included seven specific, non-binding recommendations that were "offered for the BOM's [board of management's] consideration in the hope that they will be helpful."
A timeline for when the review — and its recommendations — would be addressed is unclear.
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