N.S. nurses to be paid 12-21% more under new tentative deal, unions say – CBC
Nurse practitioners will be highest paid in Canada by 2025, according to unions
Jul 21, 2023
Ten thousand nurses in Nova Scotia can expect substantial salary increases if they vote to accept a five-year contract offer negotiated with the Houston government.
The tentative agreement, announced Friday by the unions that represent nurses in Nova Scotia, is retroactive to 2020 and expires in 2025. It applies to nurses represented by the Nova Scotia Nurses’ Union, CUPE, Unifor and the Nova Scotia Government and General Employees Union.
According to details supplied by the unions, nurse practitioners will receive a 21 per cent increase in salary by the end of the contract, registered nurses will see raises ranging from 15 to 21 per cent, and licensed practical nurses will see their wages increase 12 to 17 per cent.
LPNs have already benefited from a 12 per cent “reclassification adjustment,” which was agreed to before negotiations and was retroactive to June 2020.
According to the unions, the increases will make nurse practitioners the highest paid in Canada. RNs and LPNs will be the highest paid in the Atlantic provinces.
