She said her association has been raising the concern with Premier Doug Ford's government, stressing the “unintended consequences” of the new policies. VanderBent said those measures, when coupled with the wage gap, are enticing workers to leave home-care jobs. The province has created financial and educational incentives in a bid to recruit and retain thousands of PSWs to staff the nursing homes. The province's long-term care sector has been devastated by the pandemic, where thousands of residents have died and staffing levels have declined dramatically. “This means that when we are asking our staff to go to see a patient, the PSW is saying, 'No, I'm not interested in doing that job',” she said. The rate at which workers accept home-care assignments, a key indicator for service delivery levels, have dropped by nearly 40 per cent in recent months, she said. Sue VanderBent, the CEO of Home Care Ontario, said a group of 50 service organizations is concerned with increasing worker movement from home care to higher wage jobs in long-term care homes, where personal support workers are paid an average of $5 an hour more than they earn in community care settings. TORONTO - Ontario's drive to bolster staffing in long-term care homes hit hard by COVID-19 is leading to “destabilization” of the province's home care labour force, a group representing providers said Sunday as it pressed the government to standardize wages for personal support workers.
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