2023-09-15 17:53:35
(Montreal) The FIQ in turn denounces the end of certain bonuses paid to nurses as of September 30.
The Interprofessional Health Federation, which represents 80,000 nurses, practical nurses, respiratory therapists and clinical perfusionists, denounces the situation, in a context where there is already demotivation and disaffection among staff.
According to its assessment, nursing staff who will be affected by the end of these bonuses on September 30 will lose up to 7.5% for the evening shift, 6% for the night shift and 3.5% for the shift by day.
The FIQ affirms that it “is not against remuneration adjusted according to certain more demanding constraints”, but that it is “against the idea that the State chooses arbitrarily, almost individually, and quarter by quarter, to which premiums will apply.
“The conditions in the network are such that practically all shifts deserve a bonus,” asserts the union organization in a public release regarding the upcoming end of these bonuses.
The FIQ demands, for example, “that the salary linked to weekends be increased by 50%” in order to interest healthcare professionals.
In fact, these bonuses must be renegotiated, while the parties have already been busy, for months, negotiating the renewal of collective agreements in the public and parapublic sectors. These agreements expired on March 31.
The FIQ would have liked these bonuses to remain in place until new provisions are negotiated in the next collective agreements.
The federation maintains that it is not so much a shortage of nurses that Quebec is experiencing as “a saving grace created by deplorable working conditions, and particularly an unreasonable workload”.
On Thursday, it was the common inter-union front of the public sector which also denounced the end of certain bonuses on September 30. This also affects, for example, retention bonuses for psychologists, bonuses for medical secretaries, bonuses for certain specialized workers.
The president of the Treasury Board, Sonia LeBel, replied that some of these bonuses had already been extended in March, then in June, as a sign of good faith. But they must now be renegotiated according to priorities, she explained.
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