With the Corporate Circle, though Irvine stated it never stopped them from hiring First Nation people in the past, there is a greater awareness between the Human Resource department and the plant manager to put their best foot forward to work with First Nations and to learn about some of the inhibitions they may have about coming into the plant and how to deal with those issues once they are employed. The round table discussions held by the Circle will give us a vehicle to contact different First Nations to try and put programs together to try and make people available to us. We are not even scratching the surface of opportunity here. As a corporate citizen, we want this project to work for us and for any of the First Nation people who would like to work here. Marv Le-Nabat, director of Human Resources for Mitchell's believes they are prepared for an influx of new employees.
All employees have equal access to their peer support system.
Anyone with any kind of problem can go to the employees with a butterfly on their hardhat. This is the symbol for our support group. They are trained to help employees with their troubles. Irvine believes that the most important people in the Circle are going to be the HR managers who control labor. They point out that they have problemes with all different types of employees, work problems are work problems.