Labor & Employment

About 6,000 nurses in Nova Scotia have reached a two-year tentative agreement that would provide them wage increases.

Pharmacy named by Texas was promised secrecy if it supplied drugs used for capital punishment. Death penalty states have been turning more to compounding pharmacists to help fill a shortage of execution drugs.

Alberta Health and Alberta Blue Cross (ABC) has announced a high-level agreement-in-principle with the Alberta Pharmacists Association (RxA) that will be finalized over the next several months.

An NLRB administrative law judge has held that a New Jersey hospital violated the National Labor Relations Act when it altered its dress code policy for nurses.

Canada will face a cost crisis unless compensation schemes for physicians are retooled to account for declining workloads, warn health economists.

OTTAWA | Is it illegal under the Canada Health Act for provinces to allow private delivery of care, charge user fees or even allow private insurance? Not in the least, but you’d be forgiven for thinking so based on the rhetoric of politicians and vested interests.