Wednesday, February 26, 2025

Supporting Your Essential Service!

CLAC was pleased to participate in the prebudget process and offer recommendations for the 2025 Ontario budget

The full submission is available to download. Here is a summary of our recommendations for the healthcare sector.

Extend mandatory WSIB coverage to workers in retirement homes and residential care facilities.
Require that the daily hours of direct care by RNs, RPNs, PSWs, and allied healthcare professionals be publicly reported on for each long term care facility. This enables both transparency and an assessment of what models best achieve the desired outcomes.
Implement a permanent wage enhancement for all non-PSW employees in long term care facilities.
Workers in long term care settings should receive hands-on training that enables tactics and tools for addressing violent resident behaviour, with regular recertification.
Extend the definition of hospital in the Hospital Labour Disputes Arbitration Act to include the homecare sector.
Set a fair and equitable wage for PSWs and RPNs in the homecare sector that is at par with long term care workers of the same classifications.
Use existing, standardized service provider contracts for homecare delivery, and set a minimum standard required mileage rate of $0.72/km. and a minimum wage for travel time between homecare clients.

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