BC Ambulance Service

WHEREAS there are recruitment challenges for paramedics working on-call and stand-by shifts in rural and remote communities: THEREFORE BE IT RESOLVED that the UBCM urge the provincial government and BC Ambulance Service to address the recruitment and retention situation, by increasing the rate for the stand-by, on-call and the honorarium for volunteerpart-time ambulance staff paramedics in rural and remote communities throughout the province by an amount that is equivalent to the overall BCAS budget increase over the last five years, noting that 65 is equivalent to the increase in the overall BCAS budget over the last few years an overall increase that is not reflected in remote area on-call pay increases.