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Mediator / Arbitrator William Kaplan awarded people in the health care bargaining unit an increase in shift and weekend premiums.
Health Care workers were awarded an increase of 50 cents per hour above their current hourly wage. Shift premiums are added compensation earned when people are assigned to work on evenings, overnights or weekends.
The increase will be implemented as follows:
15 cents effective date of award (August 15, 2018)15 cents, August 1, 201920 cents, October 31, 2020
As a result of Liberal Bill 148, which legislated a wage pattern on civil servants and health care workers, shift premiums were one of the few monetary issues that could be negotiated during this round of bargaining.
This supplemental award officially concludes the new collective agreement for the Health Care Bargaining Unit and its six thousand members.
The Council of Health Care Unions thanks Mr. Kaplan for his work on this unique and complex round of bargaining.