Nurses in the majority of Ontario’s long-term care homes are about to get a big pay hike.
Ontario Nurses’ Association says an arbitrator awarded their members a pay bump of about 11.5 per cent over two years.
The union calls it the most significant wage increase in 30 years.
President Erin Ariss says the decision doesn’t eliminate the wage gap between public- and private-sector nurses, but it does help cut into that disparity.
The arbitration decision released this week awarded three per cent increases in each of the two years, and set the salary grid amounts about 5.5 per cent higher, taking effect on July 1st.
The starting wage for registered nurses in the long-term care homes goes from 32 dollars and 22 cents per hour to nearly 34 dollars per hour.
Written by: The Canadian Press
