Opposition Leader Rachel Notley is calling on the Alberta government to bring back paid leave for health-care workers who need to miss work in order to self-isolate during the COVID-19 pandemic.

An Alberta trades union has requested a meeting with Premier Jason Kenney after his party approved a policy resolution this weekend to prevent employers from being required to deduct union dues without written consent from an employee.

“It might be better for us just to stop production for 90 days, 120 days, and curtail the demand in order to move forward."

The Alberta government is proposing major changes to rules governing unions, including limits on where and how workers can picket during strikes or lockouts.

Occupational Health and Safety is investigating the death of a tree planter in northern Alberta on Thursday.

Bouvry said the employee is now quarantined at home as is any employee who was within close contact.

With concerns growing about COVID-19 outbreaks at Alberta meat plants, so too is a troubling sentiment of racism.

As the number of COVID-19 cases linked to the Cargill meat plant in High River, Alta., continues to climb, the Alberta government is confirming more details about the scope of investigations looking into both the outbreak there and a death linked to the facility.

Colton Quast, who was an employee of A Circuit Electric Ltd., suffered life-threatening injuries last Thursday while working at the site in Nisku, Alta.

Alberta is asking about 24,000 government staff, including sheriffs and social workers, to take a pay cut in their next contract -- something their union says is being done out of spite.