The Department of Health and Wellness, in a statement Wednesday, said employees who are on leave - such as sick, unpaid, worker's compensation, or other types of leaves - are eligible for incentive payments based on the percentage of time they worked in the 2022-23 fiscal year (April 1, 2022-March 31, 2023). They can get another $10,000 next year if they sign an agreement to stay for another two years. The Progressive Conservative government announced March 20 it would reward frontline nurses working for publicly funded employers with a bonus of up to $10,000. “As you would know, with any program, parameters need to be in place and the parameters that are in place on this program clearly recognized the intention of the program, which was to recognize the contributions made by permanent employees and to incent employees to attach permanently to the workforce,” Suzanne Ley told a meeting of the standing committee on human resources Tuesday when questioned on the subject. On Wednesday, SaltWire reported that the executive director of Nova Scotia’s health-care recruitment office wishes nurses and other health-care professionals off on medical leave a speedy recovery but says the parameters of a $10,000 bonus program will not be expanded to include them. I am being punished for being off hurt,” MacMullin said. ![]() She had her surgery in August 2022 and is recovering. We all know surgery wait times are lengthy.” “They said that one of the qualifications was you had to work in 2022. “I would have been at work if I didn’t have a work injury,” she said. MacMullin said the Progressive Conservative government is giving the impression it’s doing so much for nurses yet the ones on sick leave are left without. “They don’t even have the respect to respond to my emails," she said. ![]() ![]() She’s been trying to email various government officials about her situation.
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