Ontario PSWs

• PSWs in Ontario hospitals still waiting on permanent wage increase

  ``There's no excuse for this,'' said Michael Hurley, president of the Canadian Union of Public Employees' Ontario Council of Hospital Unions.

  Canada

  Nov 1, 2022
  
• Ontario offers tuition supports for career college PSW students

  The program first launched last year and the government says it helped 3,000 personal support workers get trained and graduate.

  Education

  Mar 10, 2022
  
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• 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 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
• 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
• Ontario government plans to spend $933M on increasing, improving long-term care spaces

  The funding is part of a previously announced Ontario government commitment to add 30,000 new long-term care beds over a decade.

  Health

  Mar 18, 2021
• Ontario PSW pay gap hurts home care services, advocate group says, calls for more funding

  According to a study released last year, PSWs in Ontario long-term care homes make an average hourly wage of $22.69, compared a $17.30 hourly rate paid to home care PSWs.

  Health

  Mar 7, 2021
• Ontario personal support workers get pay raise in bid to boost pandemic recruitment efforts

  Premier Doug Ford says about 147,000 workers in long-term care, hospitals, and community care are eligible for the increase.

  Health

  Oct 1, 2020