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<h1 class="gmail-article-headline">HR expert submits her report regarding hiring of French Language School Board's communications director</h1>
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<span class="gmail-article-date" title="Published Nov. 7, 2018, 11:46 a.m."><strong>Published: </strong>23 hours ago</span>
<div class="gmail-article-date" title="Updated Nov 07, 2018 at 12:21 p.m."><strong>Updated: </strong>22 hours ago</div>
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The Commission scolaire de langue française (CSLF) is P.E.I.’s French-language school board - Contributed
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<p>The Commission scolaire de langue française
(CSLF) says it is satisfied with the results of an inquiry into its
hiring of a communications director last February.</p>
<p>Officials with CSLF, the Prince Edward Island’s French Language
School board, said the investigation confirmed the ethics of its
employees, the professionalism of its human resources management, and
the validity of its hiring process.</p>
<p>After concerns were raised about the process, the CSLF hired an
expert in human resource management from the firm HR Reflexion to look
into the hiring.</p>
<p>Micheline Roy’s investigation was conducted in July. She submitted
her findings during a private meeting of the board’s trustees on Aug. 8,
2018.</p>
<p>To come to her conclusions, Roy conducted an analysis of the
recruitment process and of the hiring process, including a detailed
analysis of the interview results.</p>
<p>She verified the policies and procedures in effect, including clause
9.04 of the Public Service Commission’s manual on conflicts of
interests. She also surveyed all pertinent documents, including emails
and texts, advertisements for the position, candidate resumes, interview
questions and answers, and the evaluation matrix.</p>
<p>Roy provided several key conclusions in her report:</p>
<p>- confirmation that “the validity of the results and the integrity of
the process followed”, and that “the hiring process was conducted in
good faith and followed the hiring policy”;</p>
<p>- the Superintendent, Anne Bernard-Bourgeois, recused herself from
the hiring process and “acted in conformity with the policy and avoided
putting herself in a conflict of interest”;</p>
<p>- “there appeared to be a conflict of interest between the chair of the board, Emile Gallant, and the hired candidate”</p>
<p>- “based on his performance during the interview, his education and
his competencies, in spite of an appearance of a conflict of interest,
the selection of the hired candidate was justified and supported by the
documentation and the interview results”.</p>
<p>The chair of the board conceded that he should have asked the board
to validate his participation in the hiring process or should have
recused himself.</p>
<p>“In human resource management, the appearance of a conflict of
interest should be treated as a conflict of interest, and unfortunately
this was not the case,” Gallant concluded.</p>
<p>The HR expert also submitted recommendations to the board. Among
others, maintaining the hiring of Daniel Bourgeois as director of
communications and community and cultural affairs, implementing a
process to ensure that the supervision of the director protects the
superintendent and avoids any perception of conflicts of interests
between the director and the superintendent, improving the CSLF’s policy
on conflicts of interest, notably by developing a protocol, and
conducting a training session for the board and CSLF employees on the
matter.</p>
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<div dir="ltr" class="gmail_signature" data-smartmail="gmail_signature">=+=+=+=+=+=+=+=+=+=+=+=+=+=+=+=+<br><br> Harold F. Schiffman<br><br>Professor Emeritus of <br> Dravidian Linguistics and Culture <br>Dept. of South Asia Studies <br>University of Pennsylvania<br>Philadelphia, PA 19104-6305<br><br>Phone: (215) 898-7475<br>Fax: (215) 573-2138 <br><br>Email: <a href="mailto:haroldfs@gmail.com" target="_blank">haroldfs@gmail.com</a><br><a href="http://ccat.sas.upenn.edu/~haroldfs/" target="_blank">http://ccat.sas.upenn.edu/~haroldfs/</a> <br><br>-------------------------------------------------</div></div>