Health Care Workers

The Canadian Medical Association (CMA) is calling for the elimination of workplace sick notes for short-term minor illnesses, a move it says could prevent up to 12.5 million unnecessary health-care …

Some 25,000 health-care support workers have ratified a new collective agreement, averting a strike. The two unions involved say the four-year deal includes average wage increases of 27 per cent …

Quebec’s largest nurses union has reached a deal with the provincial government more than a year and a half after their collective agreement expired in March 2023. Fédération interprofessionnelle de …

The Nova Scotia government is offering to pay up to $15,000 a year into a new retirement benefits program for doctors in hopes the public money will keep more physicians …

Nurses in Alberta are set to vote later this month on a mediator’s recommended settlement with their employers. The United Nurses of Alberta says an online ratification vote will take …

By Lisa Johnson Alberta’s government has reached a new tentative four-year pay deal with resident physicians as the province grapples with overcrowding in hospitals and a potential health-care labour disruption. The …

A tentative agreement was reached in the early morning hours Tuesday to avert a strike by 25,000 health-care support workers in Manitoba. The workers were set to walk off the …

The federal government has announced up to $10 million in funding for a project aimed at helping internationally trained healthcare professionals work in Nova Scotia. This initiative is part of …

By Jack Farrell Alberta’s nurses could soon find themselves on the picket line as recent talks with the province foundered over disagreements over how much to pay and recruit them. David …