Health workers | Payments due have started to be made

(Montreal) Payments owed to thousands of healthcare workers for months have finally begun to flow.

The Canadian Press revealed last October that thousands of beneficiary attendants were victims of these late payments, which concerned salary increases and bonuses, and even pay equity payments.

Then, in early November, she reported that nurses too were being affected by the same late payments.

Quebec then explained these delays in payment by the many changes to be made to payroll, as well as the number of employees affected – which means that the private companies that process the payroll could not make the changes in time.

Health care workers were angry, especially since Quebec was asking them for even more, in times of a pandemic.

However, the situation is in the process of being resolved.

The Quebec Service Employees Union (SQEES), affiliated with the FTQ, which represents beneficiary attendants, said Monday that the majority of bonuses and salary increases due had begun to be paid in most establishments. However, this is not the case for pay equity payments.

On the side of the FIQ (Fédération interprofessionnelle en santé), we describe a situation “of very variable geometry”: retroactive payments and salary increases have begun to be paid, but several bonuses in connection with the collective agreement and decrees ministerial are still not.