The government says it will eliminate “duplicative” teams as it merges 20 agencies into one.
TORONTO — Ontario's Minister of Health won't say how many jobs are at risk as the province merges 20 health agencies into one.for health care Tuesday. All the local health integration networks, known as LHINs, as well as agencies like Cancer Care Ontario and eHealth Ontario, will be combined into one agency, Ontario Health., the government promises this will eliminate"duplicative" management and administrative teams.
Ontario Health will streamline the other agencies' functions and"provide more value for tax dollars," the backgrounder says. But Elliott wouldn't say how much money she expects to save or how many administrators and managers may lose their jobs."That is something that we can't answer right now," she told reporters, after being asked how many fewer staff the government expects to employ.The head of one union that represents about 45,000 health-care workers says he expects sweeping layoffs.
"Our members are the backbone of the public sector, and as frontline workers we know what is needed," Smokey Thomas, president of the Ontario Public Sector Employees Union,
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