Thank you.
The wage top-up certainly has been welcomed by many of our members. One thing that they of course would like to see is that the wage top-up is not only a temporary measure, but a measure that remains in place as things start to settle down and life returns to a new normal.
One thing that we were seeing is that the wage top-up in some provinces has been applied equally across the board for all job classifications receiving the wage top-up; however, because care aides in particular and workers in the long-term care sector are comparatively so much lower paid than workers in other sectors, the top-up still doesn't really make up for the inequity in terms of the wages they had been receiving.