QUEBEC — A invoice to restrict personal well being businesses handed unanimously within the National Assembly on Tuesday.

The long-term aim is to utterly ban businesses by December 2024 for main centres like Quebec City and Montreal.

Most different areas could have till December 2025 to finish the usage of businesses.

“It gives us time to make a link with negotiations on collective agreements, which are happening in parallel,” Health Minister Christian Dubé stated.

In the meantime, the regulation will decide the circumstances permitting the well being sector to make use of the providers of a placement company. There are additionally provisions for fines of as much as $150,000 for failure to adjust to these circumstances.

Dubé stated about 30,000 nurses go away the general public community yearly, together with 10,000 who retire. He hopes that good collective agreements shall be negotiated with the unions to retain the opposite 20,000 nurses who go away for different causes.

He additionally stated “many nurses are interested in returning” to the general public well being community. “But they need to have good working conditions.”

Quebec relies on these exterior businesses, which offer public well being institutions with personnel on request, specifically to make up for the scarcity of workers.

The use of unbiased labour price the general public community $960 million in 2022, a 380-per-cent enhance from 2016, in accordance with knowledge from the well being division.

That represents 14.8 million hours labored, in contrast with 4.8 million six years in the past.

Consultations on Bill 15, to make the well being system extra environment friendly, start on Wednesday. “If I look at the collaboration that we had from opposition parties … I think it augurs very positively for the bill,” Dubé stated.