The B-C government says plans are underway to bring health-care support workers who are contracted out to private companies back to work directly for provincial health authorities.
It says the change will improve wages, working conditions and job security for about four-thousand housekeeping and food-service workers in acute health-care facilities after they’ve been contracted to private companies for nearly 20 years.
It says the process will begin this fall and it’s working with the Hospital Employees’ Union, the health authorities and contractors on a phased approach to the change.
Meena Brisard with the union says in a statement the COVID-19 pandemic has shown how critical such workers are, but also how they’re working in some of the lowest-paid jobs with high risk of infection.
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