YHSSA Benefits Package
The Yellowknife Health and Social Services Authority (YHSSA) offers an attractive salary and benefits package to enhance your career opportunities:
- Competitive salary scales
- Northern Allowance ($3,450 per year in Yellowknife; $8,982 per year in Fort Resolution; $15,088 per year in Lutsel K'e)
- Vacation leave (starting at 16.5 days annually; 21.5 days after two years)
- Winter bonus days
- Sick leave
- Bereavement leave
- Life and disability insurance
- Extended Health Care Benefits (prescription drugs, eyeglasses, massage therapy, etc.)
- Dental plan
- Pension plan
- Flex hours (if operational requirements permit)
- Moving expenses
- Deferred salary leave plan (finance six months to one year of leave through a deferral of salary in previous years)
For more detailed information please see the Collective Agreement between the Union of Northern Workers and the Minister Responsible for the Public Service. The Act governs the conditions of employment for all unionized employees of the Government of the Northwest Territories.
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