|
Our History: 1990-1999 | Ontario Nurses' Association (15829 words) |
 | The Ontario Hospital Association proposes a 4 per cent reduction in the percentage in lieu of benefits for part-time workers, but ONA vigorously opposes the move and makes plans to take the issue to the bargaining table later this year. |
 | Ontario hospitals are still dragging their heels on enrolling part-time nurses to the Hospitals of Ontario Pension Plan, although OHA President Gordon Cunningham circulates a memo making it clear that they are obligated to sign up part-timers who meet the minimum enrolment requirements of the Pension Benefits Act. |
 | Ontario Treasurer Floyd Laughren delivers the bad news on transfer payments in November: hospitals will get a one-time 2 per cent funding increase of $149 million in 1993-94, but because of an anticipated shortfall of $4.2 billion in revenues, base operating budgets will be capped at 1992-93 levels in the subsequent two years. |
|
Ontario: Definition and Much More from Answers.com (5934 words) |
 | It's bordered on the north by Lake Ontario, on the east by the Niagara River, on the south by the Welland River, and on the west by Highways 20 and 56. |
 | Ontario, along with New Brunswick, Nova Scotia, and Quebec, is one of the four original provinces of Canada when the nation was formed on July 1, 1867 by the British North America Act. |
 | Ontario is bounded on the north by Hudson Bay and James Bay, on the east by Quebec, on the west by Manitoba, and on the south by the U.S. states of Minnesota, Michigan, Ohio, Pennsylvania and New York. |