Posted: Feb 04, 2022 12:00 PM ET | Last Updated: 10 hours agoThe Ontario Nurses' Association said no commitments were made during the meeting with Premier Doug Ford to repeal a bill that limits annual salary increases for nurses.
Hoy said in a news release that while the premier expressed interest in fixing the nursing shortage, he did not commit to repealing Bill 124. The Ontario Nurses' Association received an invitation to a second meeting to discuss nursing retention with Ford. Bill 124, which was enacted in 2019, caps the wage increases of provincial employees, like nurses and teachers, at just one per cent per year, which is below the rate of inflation.In a news release Thursday, Hoy said that the organization's front-line nurses and health-care professionals are "burned out and demoralized."The Ontario Nurses' Association represents more than 68,000 nurses and health-care professionals, as well as 18,000 nursing student affiliates.
After 2 years of experiencing the pandemic things should be getting better and more organized. Instead, all hell is breaking lose. Leaders around the world are working for re-election, not for leading us to a science based solution to the pandemic. More confusion, more deaths.
PatChristophe17 The pandemic has highlighted the key role of nurses in healthcare. How about we get paid in parity with other professions w/similar knowledge & responsibility? It’s a gender issue & needs to stop.PayNursesWhatTheyAreWorth
gee nurses claim to be a profession..professions dont answer to legislation:) I guess they imagined a Royal Charter granting Nursing profession status in Canada
Then he wasted their time.