*Question No. 73 Ms. Dawn Black: With regards to private contracting for food services on Canadian Forces Wings, Bases or Stations: (a) were requests for proposals (RFPs) issued for private companies to create franchise services for food services on military bases at any time over the last two years; (b) if RFPs were issued, was Public Works and Government Services Canada involved during the tendering process and were the tenders administered in accordance with the Financial Administration Act; (c) what directorate, group or principal of the Department of National Defence (DND) administered or managed the tendering process; (d) if, an ...[+++]d when, contracts were awarded, what were the agreements for utility costs such as water, electricity, heat, and sewage with the winning bidders; (e) for government-owned infrastructure occupied by private sector franchises or companies, are there lease or rental agreements in place; (f) who are the owners of freestanding buildings on military wings and bases, and if the sole occupant and owner is a franchise or company, how are the property taxes assessed and paid, including all utilities for these buildings; (g) for government-owned facilities that are occupied either partially or solely by private sector franchises or companies, how are maintenance costs to building repairs or preventive maintenance schedules handled for the private sector occupants, and who performs the work; (h) are private sector franchises required to carry and show proof of insurance for personal liability, personal and property damages for these facilities; (i) are there service level agreements set up for emergency services such as police, fire and paramedics between franchises, companies and DND; (j) who are the contract managers for any contracts let for private franchises; (k) what is the length of each contract for all aspects of utility costs, leasing, and rental agreements; (l) has there been any loss in income to any base commander’s budget b ...

The legal basis is a profit-sharing contract in the form of a company agreement which is concluded voluntarily.

Promote flexibility combined with employment security and reduce labour market segmentation through: the adaptation of employment legislation, reviewing where necessary the level of flexibility provided by permanent and non-permanent contracts; better anticipation and positive management of change, including economic restructuring, notably changes linked to trade opening, so as to minimise their social costs and facilitate adaptation; support for transitions in occupational status, including training, self-employment, business creat ...[+++]ion and geographic mobility; most importantly, ensuring that spouses assisting in family businesses, including farms, have social security cover and a share of benefits, inter alia by proposing a framework statute to put an end to their precarious situation; the promotion and dissemination of innovative and adaptable forms of work organisation, including better health and safety and diversity of contractual and working time arrangements, with a view to improving quality and productivity at work; the promotion of ‘chosen working time’ (‘temps choisi’) and a flexibilisation of working time, without this flexibility giving rise either to a more precarious status or to additional burdens for businesses in terms of remuneration or the organisation of work, adaptation to new technologies in the workplace, determined action to transform undeclared work into regular employment (Integrated guideline No 20).

2. Welcomes the communication's general objective of greater participation by employees in the Member States and the EU in profits and productive capital and its aim to submit proposals on this subject by 2004; confirms its previous positions on profit-sharing and share ownership;

20. Proposes alternative investment outlets outside the workplace for profit-shares earmarked for investment if in-house solutions are not possible in SMEs, whereby SME employees" share of profits which is not invested in their own undertaking is collected and channelled back to SMEs as a beneficial way of financing jobs; therefore recommends an increased use of:

The partnership committee administers the participation model (see II ii) and makes proposals for changes to the profit distribution key between labour and capital and among the employees (e.g. distribution according to performance, evaluating work according to age, department, family situation). In certain circumstances it proposes instead of profit-sharing a share in performance, productivity or turnover (in this connection see the ‘gainsharing’ concept and model on page 6 of the Commission communication).