Nurses ratify new four-year deal with Health P.E.I.
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CHARLOTTETOWN, P.E.I. — The P.E.I. Nurses’ Union has ratified a brand new four-year labour take care of Well being P.E.I. .
Union members voted 83.4 per cent in favour of the brand new settlement.
The CBC is reporting that the brand new deal features a bump in pay, new incentives for working weekends and nights and a bonus for working full-time positions.
The settlement is retroactive to March 2021.
Beneath the phrases of the settlement, nurses will obtain a 12.7 per cent pay elevate. Nurses beginning in acute care, at the moment making between $34 and $42 per hour, will see their hourly wage climb to a spread of $38 to $46.
By the top of the contract, that scale will bounce once more to $39 to $47.
Moreover, will increase and new incentives have been put in place to entice nurses to take extra night time and weekend shifts and work in short-staffed items.
Night time and weekend shifts are seeing a rise from $3 to $4 an hour, and an additional $1.25 an hour might be provided in designated items. The incentives additionally stack on each other.
There may be additionally full-time work bonus value $5,000 a yr.
