Nova Scotia nurses making $100K-plus want names off Sunshine List
From cbc.ca
Nova Scotia's nurses want their names removed from a public list that highlights public sector employees who make more than $100,000 a year, Health Minister Leo Glavine was told Tuesday.
Members of the Nova Scotia Nurses' Union said they shouldn't be on the so-called Sunshine List — which is legislated under the Public Sector Compensation Disclosure Act — because much of the money they make is through overtime.
"The act has the unintended effect of publicly shaming nurses whose only offence is to work overtime hours, offering a solution to a problem they did not create," Shannon Sidney, a nurse at the Cape Breton Regional Hospital, told Glavine during the union's annual general meeting.
"Can you commit to removing the names and locations of nurses on the list so that scrutiny is directed where it belongs?"
Under the Public Sector Compensation Disclosure Act, the names of public sector employees who make more than $100,000 a year must be disclosed publicly. The list comes out within six months after the end of the fiscal year.
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