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Quebec must keep COVID-19 premiums for health-care workers, union urges
COVID-19 pandemic.“To us, it doesn’t have to be COVID incentives, but there has to be incentives to keep the people on the public health-care system,” said Jessica Goldschleger, vice-president of the CSN (Confédération des syndicats nationaux).The government had previously announced health-care workers would receive incentives in order to retain and attract staff, as well as improve working conditions. ‘We need you’: Quebec to give up to $18K in bonuses to full-time nurses amid critical shortage Premiums include 4 and 8 per cent bonuses to compensate for the extra workload, the “staircase bonus,” which could reach $1,000 per four-week period and double time pay for employees working overtime.But those measures are coming to an end as of Saturday, and unions say if they do, many will leave.“We have trouble anticipating what’s going to happen,” said Goldschleger.