Overview of Key Nursing Contract Provisions

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Salary is often taken as the sole measure of the worth of an agreement.
However, this can be greatly misleading, as many other elements in a
collective agreement can dramatically impact the quality of nursing work.
Typically, nursing unions in Canada have one agreement that represents
the majority of nurses in the province (the provincial standard for the
membership). The values for the comparisons come from these agreements.
Efforts have been made to ensure that similar provisions are compared.
However, some items do not have comparable provisions.
Unless otherwise noted, all information is based on a seven and threequarter-hour
shift (shift lengths vary across the country), i.e. not a twelvehour
shift. It is understood that nurses across the country work shifts
of varying length. For the purpose of this document, to give a relative
overview of contract clauses and salaries amongst the affiliates, it is easiest
to limit information to the one shift. Also, information has been gathered
from collective agreements that the respective affiliates believe best
represents their agreements.
Please be advised that this document is only intended as a guide. Copies
of collective agreements are available from the website of most unions.

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