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CHEERS AND JEERS: Jeers to Health P.E.I. for not adjusting nurses' pay along with their job descriptions

Jeers to Health P.E.I. for not adjusting nurses’ pay rates when the health authority went through the process of reclassifying nursing job descriptions in 2025. The reclassification reduced what had become 1,400 positions to eight new classifications with three pay rates. This means, the P.E.I. Nurses’ Union says, some nurses are getting paid less for work they’re taking on in their new roles. The union signed off on the reclassification on the understanding the pay rates would be adjusted during contract negotiations. But union president Kim Sears says that hasn’t happened and, in fact, bargaining has gone so poorly, the nurses have walked away from it for the first time since 2002.

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