{"id":223333,"date":"2025-10-18T23:36:17","date_gmt":"2025-10-18T23:36:17","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/223333\/"},"modified":"2025-10-18T23:36:17","modified_gmt":"2025-10-18T23:36:17","slug":"third-aims-roll-out-in-sask-health-care-sees-payroll-scheduling-issues","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/223333\/","title":{"rendered":"Third AIMS roll out in Sask. health care sees payroll, scheduling issues"},"content":{"rendered":"

Since the health authority began to roll out the payroll and scheduling portions of its AIMS program<\/a> last month, SEIU-West said dozens of health-care workers in Saskatchewan\u2019s southwest have been working without the proper pay.<\/p>\n

It\u2019s a familiar complaint for the Administrative Information Management System (AIMS) program within Saskatchewan. Two other launches for facets of the system<\/a> have garnered similar frustrations from health-care workers<\/a>, in 2022 and last year.<\/p>\n

Read more:\u00a0<\/p>\n

Lisa Zunti, president of SEIU-West, said workers aren\u2019t being paid enough, they\u2019re not being paid properly, or they\u2019re being paid at the wrong rate.<\/p>\n

\u201cThe result? Members are unable to pay their bills, unable to make ends meet, stressed out that they might lose their cars, even their homes,\u201d said Zunti at a news conference Tuesday afternoon.<\/p>\n

Some workers have also been unable to pick up shifts, causing problems with staffing at some facilities.<\/p>\n

\u201cPatients in hospitals, residents in care facilities, and home care clients are not getting the care they need and deserve because AIMS is not scheduling enough staff,\u201d explained Zunti.<\/p>\n

The problems are affecting dozens of people in what used to be the Cypress Health Region in the Swift Current area and Zunti said there are nearly 100 grievances that have been filed \u2013 39 filed in just one day.<\/p>\n

But Zunti said the grievance process can take weeks, and when it comes to their pay, waiting that long isn\u2019t an option for some.<\/p>\n

She said the situation is bad for workers, patients, and the staffing situation in the area, explaining that learning about pay problems could shift some health-care workers\u2019 thoughts about taking a job in the area.<\/p>\n

\u201cSomething like this is really going to shift the tide as far as if I\u2019m going to work there or not,\u201d said Zunti.<\/p>\n

\"SEIU-West<\/a><\/p>\n

Health-care workers and their supporters rallied at an SEIU-West news conference about the AIMS pay and scheduling program. Oct. 14, 2025 (Marija Robinson\/650 CKOM)<\/p>\n

The Saskatchewan Health Authority said it rolled out the scheduling components of the system, the final part to be introduced, and nearly 7,000 workers are using it.<\/p>\n

As far as the problems being reported, the Saskatchewan Health Authority said in a statement that it had been meeting with unions and employees about the system, and it has teams working to answer people\u2019s questions about scheduling and payroll.<\/p>\n

\u201cWe recognize that some team members may face challenges as they adapt to these new systems, and we are committed to supporting them and addressing issues as they arise,\u201d read the statement.<\/p>\n

It went on to say that it had been rolling out the program in a gradual, phased approach and held focused training with each launch.<\/p>\n

Zunti was worried that the next area to be phased in would be Saskatoon early next year, which has systems the entire province relies on.<\/p>\n

However, the health authority said it has adjusted the program\u2019s schedule to make sure issues are fixed before expanding further.<\/p>\n

The health authority declined to provide any further clarity to its statement.<\/p>\n

On Tuesday, Zunti called for the workers\u2019 missing pay to be made whole, for the program to be pulled back until the problems are fixed, and for it not to be tested on real employees.<\/p>\n

\u201cThe problems that we\u2019re seeing are the same problems that we\u2019ve seen before, so I\u2019m not a fan of our members being treated as guinea pigs for their system that clearly isn\u2019t working,\u201d she explained.<\/p>\n

The original price tag for the program was $86 million, but a provincial auditor\u2019s report in December 2024 said the total cost had ballooned to $250 million.<\/p>\n

\u2014 with files from 650 CKOM\u2019s Marija Robinson.<\/p>\n

Editor\u2019s note: Lisa Zunti was incorrectly identified as president of SEIZE-West in a photo caption. She is president of SEIU-West. We regret the error.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Since the health authority began to roll out the payroll and scheduling portions of its AIMS program last…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":223334,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[34],"tags":[49,48,84,392],"class_list":{"0":"post-223333","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-healthcare","8":"tag-ca","9":"tag-canada","10":"tag-health","11":"tag-healthcare"},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/223333","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=223333"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/223333\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/223334"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=223333"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=223333"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=223333"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}