The Hospital Employees’ Union said health care workers on the front lines of the pandemic in long-term care homes and hospitals, and in health and community social services are waiting for temporary pandemic pay for straight time and overtime worked between March and July. “We recognize that the timing of the pay distribution has, for many eligible employees, prevented them from receiving much-needed funds in time for the holiday season during the COVID-19 pandemic,” the province said in a statement. HEU spokesman Mike Old said some of the lowest-paid workers in the health care system are going to be the last to get the pandemic pay. While for some it may be in the pipeline it’s not likely before Christmas “which is a shame,” Old said.
Sophia Gabiniewicz is well accustomed to dealing with stress as a registered nurse in the intensive care unit at St. Paul's Hospital in Vancouver. But she says it rose to a new level as the second wave of the COVID-19 pandemic began to swell and she recognized a familiar face in the ICU.
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