Doug Ford government offers lowest-paid school staff two per cent wage hike
The province is offering school support staff earning less than $40,000 a year a pay raise of two per cent a year over four years, and all others a 1.25 annual boost.by the school boards’ bargaining unit of CUPE, the opening offer from the government also includes some changes to short-term disability coverage, while maintaining 11 fully-paid sick days.
CUPE workers have seen wage freezes in recent years, and fell under the provincial government’s wage cap legislation that limited salary boosts to one per cent a year. Its members are typically the lowest-paid staff in school board, though some positions are part-time, and work several jobs to make ends meet, the union has said.
“... The Crown values the contributions that education workers make in schools and wants to reach a fair deal that recognizes their important role in our publicly funded education system.
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