New Collective Agreement. 1.7.1 This is a clause that covers the fact that this is a new Collective Agreement and there are, therefore, a number of provisions that cater for employees coming within coverage from previous Collective Agreements and from Individual Employment Agreements. The parties have agreed to the following:
New Collective Agreement. The round of consulatations in general membership mee- tings of unions affiliated with the Fédération de la santé et des services sociaux (FSSS-CSN) resulted in the adoption of the agreement in principle reached on March 8 last, an agreement in principle that was recommended by FSSS- CSN delegates at a Federal Council meeting on March 10- 11, 2016. In recent weeks, unions in the FSSS-CSN public sector re- presenting 110,000 workers voted to adopt the enhanced agreement in principle reached with the Xxxxxxxxx govern- ment in March.1 Although all the other union organizations in health and social services settled back in December 2015, the FSSS-CSN continue to negotiate until it obtai- xxx an agreement in principle that included an extra $80 million. “This round of collective bargaining certainly did not solve all the problems in the health and social services system. Our determination did, however, enable us to make gains over the December agree- ment in principle as well as in our struggle for a bet- ter distribution of wealth. And this is a struggle that must continue!” Xxxx Xxxxxx, FSSS-CSN president. Discussions on the texts to be signed With the agreement in principle now adopted, discussions are under way on the actual wording of the new national collective agreement. This is an important stage in negotia- tions, because at the end of this process we will be able to sign the texts and have the new collective agreement come into force. So the FSSS-CSN bargaining team is making sure that the wording of the national collective agreement complies with what was agreed upon in the agreement in principle initialled by the parties. Although the work continues, it is still too soon to say when the national collective agreement will be signed. We will keep you informed of where the work is at as quickly as possible. Answering your questions With the adoption of the agreement in principle, many wor- kers have questions. Some are wondering, for instance, when they can expect to receive the lump sum for 2015, the increase in pay for 2016 and the amounts of the premiums in the new natio- nal collective agreement, notably the ones for which the enhanced agreement in principle provides for substantial retroactive pay – namely the premiums for employees wor- king with clients presenting serious behavioural disorders, those working with clients in CHSLDs and those working in the Far North, as well as the premium paid to psycho- logists. Once the national collective agr...
New Collective Agreement
