Ontario Is Raising Wages For Personal Service Workers By $3 Through August

By Ashley Chen

Sat., June 12, 2021 | reading time 3 minutes ⏰

Ontario is broadening a compensation increment for individual help laborers for an additional two months.

It was set to terminate on June 30 however that period is being stretched out to Aug. 23.

The boost in compensation of three dollars each hour will stay set up for laborers in home and local area care, long haul care, public clinics and other social administrations.

"Our administration is focused on supporting individual help laborers and direct help laborers as they care for Ontarians during the third rush of the COVID-19 pandemic," Minister of Health Christine Elliott said in a delivery.

"These pay upgrades perceive individual help laborers and direct help laborers for their commitment to their patients, and help guarantee they have the assets they need to keep conveying quality consideration in our networks."

The public authority says it will keep on investigating the compensation and take a gander at subsequent stages after August.

Long haul Care Minister Merrilee Fullerton says expanding the pay increment will help draw in and hold laborers in the area.

"Individual help laborers are the foundation of Ontario's drawn out care framework," Fullerton said. "Expanding this compensation increment will assist with drawing in and hold individual help laborers in long haul care which is so exceptionally significant as they furnish our friends and family with the consideration they require and merit regular."

The GTA has been giving the compensation increment to in excess of 158,000 labourers since October 2020.