NL Health Services is reversing its plan to restrict vacation time after a memo sent out to workers yesterday went down like a lead balloon.
In the memo, NLHS indicated “discretionary leave requests would not be approved” during a freeze period from February to late May.
That news did not go over well with health care workers and the unions representing them.
Jerry Earle (VOCM News)
NAPE President Jerry Earle says it wasn’t long after the memo came out that the Health Authority issued another statement saying it was not going to proceed with those plans.
While that’s good news, Earle says the memo should have never gone out in the first place, especially given there was no consultation.
He says the first he heard about it was when a member sent a memo to his phone yesterday. “To say that I was a little ticked off was an understatement, so I can only imagine how members were feeling.”
Her calls the lack of consultation with unions and their members appalling.
