This is a good thing,but I doubt it will change much.
After all,this IS really the government and they answer to no one for their indescretions!

Meantime, ICBC has implemented changes as a result of the scandal. The changes include requiring all employees and managers to immediately refer any allegations regarding employee behaviour concerning fraud or theft to the employee relations department.

LMAO thats the funniest thing I've read in awhile. That should solve the problem.

The liberals will black out all the incriminating evidence and hand it back to the RCMP as in the BCR thing. Nothing will come of it, just another waste of our tax monies.

Good! Either let the public recycle their own cars legally or apply the full extent of the law.

Maybe those involved in this idiocy can be tasered on the way out the door at quitting time and be told to smarten up and don't do it again. To me that would be an effective investigation. Anybody who balks can be shot in the back of the head and it can be called self defense.

Andyfreeze they answer to us! We have forgotten is all.

I call for a least ten years for any ICBC employee involved in fraud over $5000. Throw the book at em Danno....

Let it be a lesson to all other public servants and their gold plated pension loving lifestyle.

I won't get too excited about any investigation.
The Campbell government is riding some serious heat over this, and they have to at least be SEEN as doing something about it.
Again,delay,delay,delay...drag it out and maybe we will all forget about it.
It's an old tactic that get used a lot with politicial hot potatoes.
It means very little!

Eagleone writes
"Let it be a lesson to all other public servants and their gold plated pension loving lifestyle."

So eagle tell me....why would you single out public servants?
Do you think they are the only people that could be involved in anything like this? What does them being public servants have to do with anything?
You are saying private sector workers are all honest above board people that never try scamming anyone?
Gold plated pension loving lifestyle?
Perhaps you could elaborate on that one.
I am a public servant and have a good pension plan that I PAY FOR.
There are a lot of private sector employees that also have good pension plans and some of them are completely employer paid with the ability for employees to top them up.
Your comments are insulting to the many honest, hardworking public servants that take care of things for YOU.

"..immediately refer any allegations regarding employee behaviour concerning fraud or theft to the employee relations department."
...Where the allegations can be sat on by a departmental entity instead of a real person. That way, it is more difficult to blame anybody in particular.

No lostfaith, you work for me and everyone else that is a citizen of the society whoms government you are employed. Whether you like it and agree with me or not. Not the other way around. I take offense to your insinuation that I somehow owe you something because you are a government employee.

A private company is someone else's private money and therefor it is their (owner or
shareholder) responsibility to ensure it is managed responsibly. As a citizen it is my responsibility to hold government employees to a higher standard of accountability than I would an employee of Joe's Garage, or Canfor.

It is far to easy for a government employee to rationalize that they can skim the pot because it is only the governments and you already pay to much taxes therefor its rationalized. It is far harder to make that rationalization when there is a equity owner. No comparison at all between the two.

Also we have environmental people tasked with protecting our environment, we have medical professionals expected to protect our health, we have bean counters expected to count our beans, and we have all sorts of important functions that are carried out by our governments on behalf of all of us in society and we rely on their honesty to ensure that these tasks are done without any third party influence such as lobbyists or or personal gain or past relationship influences that could deviate from the equality of the application of the law for all the rest of us to expect a standardized operational effectiveness of the government duties we the voters task our elected officials to make happen.

To think that your job is an entitlement that allows you to rip off the rate payer through chop shop activities, that not only violate the charter of rights to an equality of application of government activities (in the way of not fixing the biding process for the auction process), but also was done in a way that presented personal benefit to those employees. That is a culture that simply is not acceptable no matter what government department it happens in.

Government employee's do not ever have to deal with the prospect of bankruptcy of their employer and therefore can feel more liberty to demand a higher compensation, and today that higher compensation is far and above in the majority of employment comparisons what one can expect in the private sector for virtually every single government job available.

Do we simply pay this premium so we can expect from those employee's that they merely meet the lowest common denominator of a standard? I certainly do not think so. Government positions are far to important in their function to society than to expect a low standard from them and their unions.

Whether it is pension, or holiday time, or bonuses, or what ever... the point is the government employee is well compensated.

Effective governments is more important IMO than a union member that feels slighted because of a call for accountability when criminal behavior is brought to light among his peers.

As a government employee you should be outraged at the shame the ICBC people brought to the honesty and integrity that you claim is the norm for government employees. Don't shoot the messenger. As an outsider I look at the examples and make a judgment as best as I can... In this case my judgment on the ICBC government employees speaks for itself. If you feel you are under paid and wish to use this example of the ICBC employee to make your point, than that is an issue I'm not interested in debating further.