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Originally Posted by Reggie Dunlop
I'd rather have a 100 more paramedics serving the city of Calgary at an increased pay scale than paying time and a half or double time for the ones there now. Somehow I don't think the majority of current employees will mind.
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That makes sense to us but for some reason the people who have the power to make that happen don't see it this way. My wife is a nurse. She worked long and hard for several years part-time before she even got a sniff at a full-time position. The vast majority of her coworkers were part-time or casual and most of them had to hold down two or more jobs. There was constant turnover and patient care suffered.
To keep some consistency in the level of service, to make employees and patients happier and more comfortable, management could have had a more stable work force by creating more full-time positions. At some point, I guess, having a pile of part-timers is cheaper than having a smaller reserve of full-timers. Maybe it's the wages and benefits. Not sure. But at some point you'd think the other non-financial costs outweigh the $$$ savings.