Group home support workers ratify first agreement

According to NAPE President Carol Furlong, the agreement contains significant improvements in salaries and benefits for 29 employees who provide support services for persons with disabilities in a group home setting. The agreement contains improvements in overtime benefits, increase in the number of paid statutory holidays, improvements in paid vacation leave, sick leave, bereavement leave and family leave; improvements in pension benefits and group insurance benefits and severance. Benefits and wages are retroactive to July 1, 2009 and annual increases will bring wages to $19.03 an hour in the third year. The collective agreement expires June 30, 2012.

For information contact:
Carol Furlong 570-2471/1-800-563-4442