Ontario Personal Support Workers

• Ontario to table legislation making PSW wage increase permanent: Doug Ford

  The Ontario government is planning to soon make permanent an hourly wage increase for personal support workers that was brought in during the pandemic.

  Canada

  Mar 15, 2022
  
• COVID-19: Droves of Ontario home care workers leave for hospitals, nursing homes

  Nurses, personal support workers and therapists have left home care in droves during the COVID-19 pandemic.

  Health

  Oct 31, 2021
  
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• Ontario further extends temporary wage increase for personal support workers

  The province brought in the raise in an effort to attract new employees and retain existing ones during the COVID-19 pandemic.

  Health

  Oct 28, 2021
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• Ontario extends pay increase for personal support workers until end of October

  The province says the temporary $3-per-hour wage increase for workers in long-term care homes and similar facilities will now continue until Oct. 31.

  Canada

  Aug 23, 2021
• Premier Doug Ford says ‘it’s a guarantee’ to keeping pay increase for personal support workers

  Ford says it's a "guarantee" that his government will keep the temporary $3 per hour wage bump for the workers who staff long-term care homes and similar facilities.

  Health

  Jul 5, 2021
• Calls for ‘accountability’ against Ontario PSW Association over ‘demeaning’ TikTok videos

  "I don't know who these people are but I sure wouldn't want them one foot near my mom," said Jill Davis, whose mother has dementia and lives in long-term care.

  Health

  Jun 18, 2021
• COVID-19: Ontario extends wage increase for personal support workers

  Health Minister Christine Elliott announced the $141 million needed to extend the increase of $2 or $3 per hour depending on the sector on Friday.

  Health

  Jun 11, 2021
• Coronavirus: Front-line workers who left LTC homes in May won’t come back, commission hears

  COVID-19 ripped through long-term care homes in Ontario, making its way inside 55 per cent of the 626 homes during the first wave of the pandemic in the spring.

  Health

  Oct 30, 2020
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• 2 Ontario colleges offer free personal support worker courses to address shortage

  Two Ontario colleges have partnered with a home-care services company to offer free courses that certify personal support workers in a bid to address a shortage of the employees during the pandemic.

  Canada

  Oct 21, 2020
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• Coronavirus: Doug Ford pledges help for ‘overworked,’ ‘underpaid’ personal support workers

  Ford says the PSWs, who have played a major in the struggle against the COVID-19 pandemic, are underpaid and overworked.

  Health

  Aug 6, 2020