Saturday, August 7, 2010

Budget Shortfall?

How about cash cow for "insider" scheduling. This is a result of healthcare for the employees, instead of healthcare for the sick.

250 K Per Year:

"I'm at $45 an hour. When I work overtime, I make $90 an hour because it's double time. We work 12-and-a-half hour shifts so it's $1,000 per overtime shift," he said.

"And in our contract, we have consecutive weekends. You have to work four weekends in a row and then per contract all of your regularly scheduled weekends automatically become double time. I never take a weekend off."

He says people shouldn't think that the $213,868 he earned in 2009-10 is too much money. The base rate for a registered nurse is $88,000 annually.


... Saskatoon Health Region, not broke ... enough.

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