Communication from your Local Executives on Pandemic Pay (20-07-20)

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Update (20-05-27)

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.

Eligible workers

• Personal support workers including home support workers, home help workers, community support workers, residential support workers, homemakers
• Registered nurses
• Registered practical nurses
• Nurse practitioners
• Attendant care workers
• Auxiliary staff, including:
  • porters
  • cooks, food service, food preparation
  • custodians, cleaning/maintenance and environmental services staff, sterilization and reprocessing staff
  • housekeeping
  • laundry
  • security, screeners
  • stores/supply workers, receivers, department attendants
  • hospital ward and unit clerks
  • client facing reception/administrative workers, schedulers, administrative staff working in home and community care or community-based mental health and addictions
  • community drivers
  • community recreational staff/activity coordinators
• Developmental services workers
• Mental health and addictions workers: counsellors/therapists, case workers and case managers, intake/admissions, peer workers, residential support staff, Indigenous/cultural service workers
• Respiratory therapists in hospitals and in the home and community care sector
• Paramedics
• Public health and infection prevention and control nurses

Message from your Local Executives

 The Government has provide an update on the eligibility of receiving the Pandemic pay. Although the list have been expanded, but some of the classifications are still not included.

We believe all of our brothers and sisters in other classifications also sacrifice a great deal  to fight COVID-19 shoulder-to shoulder with the entire health care team should be included in the list as well.

Action you can take

Update on eligibility (May 7 , 2020)

The Government has provide an update on the eligibility of receiving the Pandemic pay.

Details

We believe all of our brothers and sisters in other classifications also sacrifice a great deal  to fight COVID-19 shoulder-to shoulder with the entire health care team and should be included in the list as well.

Please contact the Union Office for further details.