Tuesday, February 1, 2022

Broken Promises, Botched Pay

Local 302 members at Revera-owned Garden City Manor in St. Catharines held an information picket on Wednesday, February 23, to bring attention to long unresolved problems with the company’s payroll system

The payroll problems have been going on for two-and-a-half years now. Many front-line staff at Garden City Manor have not had an accurate pay stub for more than two weeks at a time, as well as botched vacation pay and pension contributions. This problem exists at several Revera-owned sites across southern Ontario whose employees are represented by CLAC.

“Having a correct pay stub is a fundamental right of any worker,” says Arielle Ross, CLAC representative. “Revera continues to provide staff with inaccurate pay stubs while touting their employees as heroes. For our members, it’s been a slap in the face.

“This should be of deep concern to Revera. But their actions tell our members that the sacrifices they’ve made by working through a global pandemic aren’t important enough to warrant correct pay. If CLAC’s filing of over 70 individual grievances doesn’t cause the company to take drastic measures to correct these errors quickly, they run the risk of losing long-serving, committed employees, many who have worked at the home for over 20 years.”

According to Ross, Revera has yet to find a permanent solution to these errors since CLAC first filed the grievances back in 2020.

“These errors affect our members’ livelihoods,” says Ross. “While CLAC has been working hard to resolve them, Revera continues to punt it back and make it the employees’ job to prove there is a larger, systemic problem with payroll. Imagine not being able to trust your own pay stub, or know if you have any vacation money left? It’s unacceptable.”

The protest was covered by the Toronto Star, St. Catharines Standard, and CHCH TV.

Broken Promises, Botched Pay

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