The opposition parties are demanding the Liberal government rescind bonuses and merit pay given to bureaucrats at scandal-plagued eHealth Ontario.
The electronic health records agency is giving hundreds of staff 1.9 per cent merit raises and bonuses of 7.8 per cent, despite the government's two-year wage freeze for about one million public sector workers.
Progressive Conservative Leader Tim Hudak says he can't believe the agency at the centre of a $1-billion scandal involving expense abuses and untendered contracts is giving out bonuses.
In the legislature, Hudak wanted to know in what world the Liberals thought it was OK to let eHealth give out bonuses.
Hudak said the merit pay and bonuses were wrong and asked the government to admit the fact and rescind the extra payments.
The New Democrats also lashed out at the Liberals for freezing the wages of front- line health care workers like nurses while giving eHealth bureaucrats big raises.
