2023-11-28 15:47:40
Health system reform will ultimately increase the number of union accreditations to six, rather than four, in order to facilitate the ability to offer differentiated offers during the next renewal of collective agreements.
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“In the current negotiation, I think it would have been easier to make differentiated offers to certain groups, such as beneficiary attendants, such as psychologists,” commented the Minister of Health, Christian Dubé, Tuesday morning.
He was preparing to table new amendments to Bill 15 in order to ultimately retain six union accreditations when the new Santé Québec agency becomes the sole employer in the health network.
Thus, a category will be created for respiratory therapists, technicians and medical imaging technologists.
Beneficiary attendants will also obtain their own accreditation unit.
Until now, they were mostly grouped with kitchen staff and maintenance staff.
Quebec will thus be able to negotiate directly with a unit that represents a single trade, or a few similar trades, rather than with an accreditation unit that represents both beneficiary attendants and cooks, for example.
Home stretch
The study of Bill 15 is entering its final stretch, as the National Assembly begins two final intensive weeks before the holiday break.
Christian Dubé has often signaled his desire to have his reform adopted before Christmas, in order to begin its implementation next year.
“I had submitted a three-week plan. We are a few articles late, but not substantially. We have a big week this week. I think we can easily do a hundred articles in the three blocks that I wanted us to do this week and we can continue,” commented the minister.
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