LA13(1) Provision for Employee Representation in Decision-Making or Management, Including Corporate Governance

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While there is no formal provision in the current governance structure at BC Hydro for employee input into decision-making, in the last year several informal forums have been established to advise Senior Management and the Executive Management Committee. Examples include:

• The Employee Relations Forum continues to seek constructive, collective input from a cross-section of Management & Professional staff with regards to future changes at BC Hydro and meeting our Long Term Goals. The group was consulted and their input was incorporated this year into the Employee Referral Program in advance of the program being rolled out.
• The career-path process for the design group was another example that included clear consideration of employee concerns, and that planned changes were vetted with the unions.
• To help address safety and security of information concerns, our President has invited representatives of the two unions (COPE and IBEW) to participate with him on corporate-wide conference calls pertaining to safety. On the Safety Roles and Responsibilities initiative we had management and IBEW representatives on a committee involved in reviewing and sanctioning the test that was given to all manager and crew leaders. It was their involvement that made this testing process roll-out smoothly.