Introduced on July 7, Bill 195 says the state of emergency is over, but not for healthcare workers.
It overrides your rights in your collective agreement. For more information CLICK HERE.
Pandemic Pay Update
In the first week of June, ministries will start sending funding details to employers that receive funding directly from government and service delivery managers.
Employers will receive funding for pandemic pay as quickly as possible – starting in early June, though exact timing will vary. Eligible employees will receive pandemic pay through their existing payroll systems. Appropriate accountability requirements will be in place to ensure that funding is provided to eligible employees.
Eligible employees will receive temporary pandemic pay on hourly wages and those working over 100 hours in a designated four-week period will receive monthly lump sum payments. This pay will be provided retroactively to April 24, 2020.
This page will be updated in the coming days with more specific timelines.
The list has been expanded to cover dietary aides, maintenance, stores/receiving, and a number of clerical and administrative functions and others…
For more information click HERE.
CUPE launches “Fix Long-Term Care” campaign
The COVID-19 emergency has put a spotlight on the crisis happening in long-term care homes across Canada. Four out of every five deaths in Canada have either been residents or workers in care homes. And for us in CUPE, it’s no secret why: underfunding, understaffing, and a focus on profit instead of care has been wearing down the system for decades.
This week, CUPE launched a campaign calling on Prime Minister Justin Trudeau to do the right thing and fix our broken long-term care system. It’s time to recognize long-term care for what it is – health care – and to provide the funding and resources that residents and workers alike deserve. Long-term care should be public, not for-profit, and it should be funded and resourced so that residents and workers can live safely and with dignity.
Our campaign will put pressure on the federal government by mobilizing thousands of voices across Canada to write to the Prime Minister and demand change now.
I am asking for your help to amplify our message by sharing this campaign with your friends and families.
- Please visit fixlongtermcare.ca and sign the letter to the Prime Minister.
- Please share the campaign within your networks.
We owe it to every care home resident, every care aide, and every one of CUPE’s 65,000 members in the long-term care sector to make sure this kind of preventable crisis never happens again. With your help, we can fix long-term care.
Province urged to make workers’ compensation automatic for essential employees diagnosed with COVID-19
Worker advocates are urging the province to change worker compensation laws to make it easier for health-care and other essential workers infected with COVID-19 to access benefits.
Workplace Exposure To COVID-19
Contact WSIB to make sure you get the compensation that you’re entitled to. If you have been exposed to COVID-19 in the workplace:
• Visit wsib.ca and fill out a Workers’ Exposure Incident Form (form 3958A).
If you been diagnosed with COVID-19 after an exposure in the workplace:
• Visit wsib.ca and fill out a Form 6.
• Request that your doctor complete a Form 8 with the COVID-19 diagnosis and submit it to WSIB.
Have you been exposed to COVID-19 in the workplace? Click here for more information.
Can’t find the correct forms? Ask your union representative to help you file your claim with WSIB.