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Since the onset of the COVID-19 pandemic, several measures have been enacted by the Ontario government that serve as barriers to our province’s healthcare workers in their fight for fair treatment and their ability to make a living wage.
Under this bill, healthcare workers are subject to a one percent annual compensation cap for three years. With annual inflation averaging between two to three percent, this legislation erodes earnings and makes it more difficult for these essential workers to earn a living wage. CLAC believes that all hands-on healthcare workers in hospitals, homecare, long term care, and community living should be exempt from this bill.
While positioned as a bill that allows flexibility as the province reopens following the COVID-19 pandemic, Bill 195 gives employers in the healthcare sector the power to deny workers earned vacation time and to suspend other basic workplace rights. CLAC is encouraging the government to ease these restrictions in work locations where there are no outbreaks and in regions that are in Phase 3 of the province’s reopening plan.
Both bills negate conditions of the collective bargaining agreements that many of these workers, including CLAC members in the healthcare sector, have fought hard to secure.
Want more information on how you can become a champion for healthcare workers in Ontario? Visit our Make Healthcare Hero Pay Permanent campaign page to find out how you can contact your local government representatives on these and other matters affecting the healthcare sector.