COVID-19 vaccine requirement extended across health care
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Provincial Health Officer Dr. Bonnie Henry announced Monday that the COVID-19 vaccine requirement for long-term care and assisted living workers will be extended to the rest of health care effective October 26. Health care workers in a wide array of …
Last updated: Sep 15, 2021
Ways to vote in the Sept 20 federal election
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There are four ways you can vote this year. In person on Election Day Monday, September 20 In person at an Advance Voting Location from September 10 to 13 In person at an Elections Office, until 6 pm September 14 By mail, if you request a mail-in ballot …
Last updated: Sep 9, 2021
Public health order issued for October 12 vaccine requirement
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B.C.’s Provincial Health Officer (PHO) Dr. Bonnie Henry has issued a written order confirming the requirement that workers in long-term care and assisted living to be vaccinated against COVID-19. It comes three weeks after she announced the action earlier …
Last updated: Sep 8, 2021
HEU Staff Union (PEA-HESU) job action
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To: All HEU Locals Re: HEU Staff Union (PEA-HESU) job action The PEA-HESU representing HEU’s unionized staff served strike notice on HEU earlier this week. HEU has had productive negotiations with PEA-HESU over the last few months but we have not …
Last updated: Sep 3, 2021
Contract Negotiations with HEU Staff Union (PEA-HESU)
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As you may know, HEU is in collective bargaining with our staff union, PEA-HESU. HEU and PEA-HESU have engaged in significant, productive negotiations over the last several months and the parties have reached agreement on a wide range of initiatives. We …
Last updated: Sep 2, 2021
Province reverses privatization of cleaning and dietary work in B.C. hospitals
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More than 4,000 workers to be brought in-house ending 20-year privatization policy that drove down wages for women and workers of colour, and fragmented the health care team [Vancouver, B.C.] Health Minister Adrian Dix today announced that privatized …
Last updated: Aug 31, 2021
I like being involved in caring for people and seeing them recover
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“I’m a nursing unit clerk for Critical Care (ICU and ER). When I come into work first thing in the morning, I gather up the charts that the doctors have written orders on. I transcribe all of the medications for the nurses and arrange for any testing …
Last updated: Aug 30, 2021
New masking, testing, and data collection requirements ordered for long-term care and assisted living
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Provincial Health Officer (PHO) Dr. Bonnie Henry issued a public health order on August 20 for the collection of vaccination data from residents, staff and outside service providers at long-term care (LTC) and assisted living (AL) sites across the …
Last updated: Aug 26, 2021
New vaccination requirements for long-term care and assisted living: Questions and answers
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(Please note that the PHO issued a significant revision to this order on October 4 including new timelines and limited grounds for requesting exemptions. As a result some of the information below is out of date. An update is available here .) (Edited on …
Last updated: Oct 5, 2021
Health authority employees can register for voluntary deployment to communities impacted by wildfire emergency
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Wildfires in the interior of B.C. are putting communities at risk and creating significant staffing shortages in health care sites that are already stretched to the limit. In response, the Ministry of Health has re-opened the Emergency Health Provider …
Last updated: Jul 6, 2022