Provides a quality workplace - Balance

We want to continue to assist nurses with maintaining a healthy work/life balance.
  • There are a significant number of leave provisions in the current Collective Agreement (Article 17).

  • The current collective agreement provides for paid family leave (17.07).

  • Article 7 provides the option of exchanging shifts (7.13).


  • 73 per cent of responding nurses in the 2005 Employee Opinion Survey rated their careers positively for enabling a balance between work and family.*
*Province wide Employee Opinion Survey conducted by NRC+Picker Canada, 2005