After going over the numbers for the past month, the ink is now dry on a deal between doctors and the province. The deal includes annual wage increases of 3.75 per cent annually for four years, and a two-year wage freeze. The contract will run retroactively from April 1 of last year to March 31, 2012. The two-year wage freeze will come into effect on April 1, 2012. The same increases and wage freeze will apply to salaried physicians.
The doctors launched legal action after the government threatened to impose a two-year wage freeze. That came after the medical society reached a tentative agreement with the province that was never implemented, but was ratified by the doctors.
