Monday, May 6, 2024

PCHS Employees Unanimously Ratify New Three-Year Contract

Victoria, BC—Employees of Pacific Coast Health Services (PCHS) voted unanimously in favour of ratifying a three-year collective agreement providing them with yearly wage increases and other improvements.

The employees are represented by Service, Health, Manufacturing, and Allied Workers Union, CLAC Local 501. The union has represented them since 1999.

The new contract provides registered care aides with wage increases ranging from 8 to 15 percent over the first two years with a wage review in the third year. In addition, the live-in allowance was increased, and new premiums were negotiated for employees caring for high acuity clients. Of special interest to employees was new contract language specifying that sick notes will now only be needed after the second time calling in sick and new 50 percent reimbursement toward the cost of obtaining sick notes.

“This was a great set of negotiations,” says Aleasha Wegner, representative. “The employer truly cares about the well-being of their employees. Although PCHS has struggled to bounce back from the pandemic, the company wanted to compensate their employees every way they could. Our members were very pleased with the result of negotiations, as evidenced by their unanimous support of the settlement.”

PCHS provides in-home healthcare services to clients in Nanaimo and Victoria, BC.

PCHS Employees Unanimously Ratify New Three-Year Contract

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