Last week, Premier Doug Ford announced a wage boost for more than 147,000 personal support workers, starting Oct. 1 and ending in March 2021. "I think more than anything else, personal support workers need to feel appreciated," she said. "Long-term care is supposed to be, you know, a person's place of life, not just care," she said. Personal support work is 'care that is necessary for life,' and deserves to be recognized as such, says Natalie Stake-Doucet, president of the Quebec Nurses Association. "And I think our politicians need to understand what it means to work in long-term care," she said.

Source: CBC News October 05, 2020 18:36 UTC