TORONTO -- Ontario Premier Doug Ford announced a temporary "pandemic payment" for front-line workers risking their lives amid the COVID-19 pandemic. These workers would receive an additional $4 an hour for the next sixteen weeks, as well as a possible $250 lump-sum a month if they worked 100 hours or more.

Here are the employees who are eligible for this wage increase:

Health care and long-term care:

Eligible workplaces include acute hospitals, long-term care homes (private, municipal and not-for-profit), licensed retirement homes, and home and community care.

Eligible workers include:

Personal support workers

Registered nurses

Registered practical nurses

Nurse practitioners

Attendant care workers

Auxiliary staff, including:

Porters, cook, custodian, housekeeping, laundry facilities and other key workers.

Developmental services workers

Mental health and addictions workers

Social services:

Eligible workplaces include homes supporting people with developmental disabilities, intervenor residential sites, Indigenous healing and wellness facilities or shelters, shelters for survivors of gender-based violence and human trafficking,yYouth justice residential facilities, licensed children's residential sites, directly operated residential facility, emergency shelters, supportive housing facilities, respite/drop-in centres, temporary shelter facilities,and hotels and motels used for self-isolation and/or shelter overflow.

Eligible workers include:

Direct support workers (e.g. developmental service workers, staff in licensed children's residential sites, in-take/outreach workers)

Clinical staff

Housekeeping staff

Security staff

Administration personnel

Maintenance staff

Food service workers

Nursing staff

Corrections:

Eligible workplaces include adult correctional facilities and youth justice facilities in Ontario.

Eligible workers include:

Correctional officers

Youth services officers

Nurses

Healthcare staff

Social workers

Food service

Maintenance staff

Programming personnel

Administration personnel

Institutional liaison officers

TRILCOR personnel

Native inmate liaison officers

Chaplains

The province further expanded the list of eligible workers on April 28 to include the following Ontario Public Service Employees Union staff: