COVID-19 in Quebec: What you need to know this weekend
CBC
Note: Quebec's Health Ministry does not publish the number of vaccines administered on weekends and public holidays.
Scheduling staff at Montreal's Jean-Talon hospital say they're concerned that delaying the deadline for mandatory vaccination of health-care workers to Nov. 15 has only pushed the problem down the road.
The chief of services for the CIUSSS du Nord-De-L'île-De-Montréal says he's still short about 15 nurses this weekend and ensuring the hospital has the staff it needs to care for patients and offer services has been a constant juggling act throughout the pandemic.
Meanwhile, the province's largest nurse's union, the Fédération interprofessionnelle de la santé du Québec (FIQ), says more than 30-thousand of its members in a dozen regions are refusing to work mandatory overtime until Monday.
The union says it sent formal notices to local and provincial health authorities informing them of this weekend's plans and giving them a Nov. 15 deadline to eliminate the practice or face action from the FIQ.
On Friday, Health Minister Christian Dubé he and the Health Ministry are working on several new measures to improve working conditions throughout Quebec's health network that should be announced next week.
After offering new bonuses to nurses in September, Dubé says the province is looking at alternatives to mandatory overtime and planning to offer scheduling priority to public employees — all part of an additional effort to attract new workers, encourage former nurses to come out of retirement and convince part-time staff to move to full-time work.
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