{"id":9260,"date":"2021-05-17T08:53:49","date_gmt":"2021-05-17T13:53:49","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.une-sen.org\/press\/?p=9260"},"modified":"2021-05-17T08:53:51","modified_gmt":"2021-05-17T13:53:51","slug":"negotiations-begin-to-improve-public-service-health-care-plan","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.unesen.ca\/press\/?p=9260","title":{"rendered":"Negotiations begin to improve Public Service Health Care Plan"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<figure class=\"wp-block-image size-large\"><img loading=\"lazy\" width=\"960\" height=\"400\" src=\"http:\/\/www.une-sen.org\/press\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/05\/pills-news.jpg\" alt=\"\" class=\"wp-image-9261\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.unesen.ca\/press\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/05\/pills-news.jpg 960w, https:\/\/www.unesen.ca\/press\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/05\/pills-news-300x125.jpg 300w, https:\/\/www.unesen.ca\/press\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/05\/pills-news-768x320.jpg 768w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 767px) 89vw, (max-width: 1000px) 54vw, (max-width: 1071px) 543px, 580px\" \/><\/figure>\n\n\n\n<p>May 13, 2021<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>PSAC has kicked off negotiations with the employer to improve the Public Service Health Care Plan&nbsp;(PSHCP), which provides benefits&nbsp;to&nbsp;most federal public service workers and retirees.&nbsp;&nbsp;<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>The&nbsp;focus&nbsp;will be&nbsp;on making gains for all members&nbsp;since the health care plan hasn\u2019t been reviewed since 2006.&nbsp;There are many issues&nbsp;we will be pushing to improve&nbsp;including&nbsp;vision care, paramedical maximums,&nbsp;coverage for psychological services&nbsp;and many other&nbsp;benefits&nbsp;that impact members\u2019 health and well-being.&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>\u27a1\ufe0f&nbsp; &nbsp;<strong><a href=\"http:\/\/psacunion.ca\/psac-begins-talks-improve-public-service-health\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener\" target=\"_blank\">See the full list of proposals to improve the health care plan<\/a>&nbsp;<\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>We have made some progress on&nbsp;updating coverage,&nbsp;but&nbsp;the employer is&nbsp;insisting that changes made to the plan must not result in any additional costs. In fact, they are telling us that they will only agree to changes if they ultimately cost the plan&nbsp;less&nbsp;money. We have&nbsp;told the employer that\u2019s simply unacceptable.&nbsp;The&nbsp;health care plan&nbsp;is not adequately responding to members\u2019 needs and&nbsp;lags behind&nbsp;similar health care&nbsp;plans.&nbsp;A&nbsp;real overhaul&nbsp;is&nbsp;necessary.&nbsp;&nbsp;<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>PSAC&nbsp;will continue to push for improvements to the&nbsp;health care plan&nbsp;and&nbsp;will&nbsp;update you on&nbsp;progress as&nbsp;negotiations continue&nbsp;through&nbsp;May and June.&nbsp;<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Source: <a href=\"http:\/\/psacunion.ca\/negotiations-begin-improve-public-service-health\">Negotiations begin to improve Public Service Health Care Plan | Public Service Alliance of Canada (psacunion.ca)<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n<p><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>May 13, 2021 PSAC has kicked off negotiations with the employer to improve the Public Service Health Care Plan&nbsp;(PSHCP), which provides benefits&nbsp;to&nbsp;most federal public service workers and retirees.&nbsp;&nbsp; The&nbsp;focus&nbsp;will be&nbsp;on making gains for all members&nbsp;since the health care plan hasn\u2019t been reviewed since 2006.&nbsp;There are many issues&nbsp;we will be pushing to improve&nbsp;including&nbsp;vision care, paramedical maximums,&nbsp;coverage &hellip; <\/p>\n<p class=\"link-more\"><a href=\"https:\/\/www.unesen.ca\/press\/?p=9260\" class=\"more-link\">>><span class=\"screen-reader-text\"> &#8220;Negotiations begin to improve Public Service Health Care Plan&#8221;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":6,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_links_to":"","_links_to_target":""},"categories":[12,19],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.unesen.ca\/press\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/9260"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.unesen.ca\/press\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.unesen.ca\/press\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.unesen.ca\/press\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/6"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.unesen.ca\/press\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=9260"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/www.unesen.ca\/press\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/9260\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":9266,"href":"https:\/\/www.unesen.ca\/press\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/9260\/revisions\/9266"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.unesen.ca\/press\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=9260"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.unesen.ca\/press\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=9260"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.unesen.ca\/press\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=9260"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}