Thursday, February 09, 2017
Fourteen AMAPCEO members are now enjoying better job security after the union partnered with the Employer at the Office of the Provincial Advocate for Children and Youth (OPACY) to do an early conversion of their contracts to permanent status.
The agreement was negotiated between AMAPCEO and the OPACY Employer earlier this month and applies to all of OPACY’s contract staff. Ordinarily, these members would have had to wait until they reached two years of service to gain permanent status.
As permanent employees, these AMAPCEO members now receive better job security, health benefits, and other improved terms of employment.
OPACY is an independent office of the Ontario Legislature that provides individual, systemic, and community development advocacy for the province’s children and youth who are either in care or on the margins of government care. Their mandate was recently expanded to conduct investigations into the child welfare system to protect young people’s wellbeing.
OPACY has the distinction of being the first AMAPCEO bargaining unit divested from the OPS after successor rights were re-instated and is now one of our six bargaining units in the Broader Public Sector (or BPS).