A dozen job titles would be affected, such as B. External in medical technology, criminologist, health technician in medical laboratories, health technician in medical imaging and others, as stated by Josée Fréchette, first vice president of the Alliance of Professional and Technical Personnel in Health and Human Services (APTS) on Friday. .

Ms Fréchette points out that there is a shortage of workers in health and social services and that workers are often exhausted at work.

” Our people lived through the whole pandemic. You gave a lot. There is a certain tiredness. And since we want to keep them longer; we want to force them to spend more time at work when our people are already weary and overwhelmed by the pandemic. »

For us this is not an improvement. We are at odds because the government wants to attract people, keep them and provide good conditions and at the same time we are increasing the working hoursshe complains.

When asked for comment, the Treasury Board Secretariat said so In particular, in order to quickly increase the availability of labor in a context of shortage, it is necessary to rearrange working hours.

In return for greater availability, the offers ultimately enable better planning of personnel deployment plans, an increase in income and old-age pensionsadded the Treasury Board.

Redefine overtime

Quebec also wants in its offer redefine what overtime is, specifically by removing the notion of overtime over the regular day of work, reports Ms. Fréchette.

What exactly does that mean? It is not clear to us, she mentions. Unions say they need clarification from the department and Treasury.

We really have the impression that this measure is intended to camouflage overtime and forced overtime in one day and save money on the employees’ shoulderssummarizes them.

She also wonders if this redefinition of what overtime really is isn’t aimed at that as well Better make the minister’s dashboards appearby artificially lowering the numbers.

However, there are positives: In the bail [du gouvernement] There are a few measures that might be of interest. But overall it didn’t live up to our expectationsconcludes Mrs. Fréchette.

The Treasury Board explains this for its part Management’s proposals are part of a labor shortage that forces us to quickly review the possibilities of organizing work in order to offer the population the care and services to which they are entitled, while guaranteeing respect for staff. The long-term goal is to reduce overtime.

The organization declined to say more out of respect for the ongoing negotiation process.

I’APTs is the trade union organization representing the vast majority of professionals and technicians in health and social care. It is part of the cross-union common front with which CSNThere CSQ and the FTQ. The various unions in the four organizations together represent 420,000 members.