Ontario hospital workers are set to get additional wage increases over two years, the latest in a series of similar arbitration decisions after the province's wage-restraint law was found unconstitutional.
Wage increases of an additional 3.75 per cent and 2.5 per cent over two years are coming for Ontario hospital workers, not including registered nurses.
That 2019 law limited wage increases for broader public sector workers to one per cent a year for three years, but was declared unconstitutional late last year by an Ontario court. Kaplan also awarded an additional $2 to the predominant hourly rate for registered practical nurses and increases to shift and weekend premiums as well as some benefits. Registered nurses, who got pay boosts in a separate decision, were not included in the latest arbitration decision.Increases in compensation should help with the recruitment and retention "crisis" in Ontario's hospitals, the arbitrator wrote.
Some hospitals have been using agency nurses to shore up staffing, paying them double or triple the collective agreement rates "because compensation is a, if not the, key driver in attracting employees," he wrote. "The participating hospitals suggest that compensation increases will not solve these problems, but this submission fails in a context when many of their members are using financial incentives to attract and retain staff, and the government is adopting and backstopping this same approach."Anthony Dale, president and CEO of the Ontario Hospital Association, said the OHA recognizes the enormous value of front-line health-care workers and supports free collective bargaining.
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