Pandemic Pay

• ‘Hero pay’ not making return to grocery chains. Workers say it’s ‘insulting’

  Multiple grocery store workers say they are busier than ever with more staff calling in sick in the last two weeks than during the entire COVID-19 pandemic.

  Canada

  Jan 14, 2022
  
• London, Ont., officials clarify why top doctor received $100k for overtime

  The increase in the medical officer of health's reported salary for 2020 is linked to overtime paid out by the Ontario government for extra work related to the COVID-19 pandemic.

  Health

  Mar 4, 2021
  
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• Some New Brunswick elder-care workers left out of pandemic wage top-up: union

  The workers were left out of a program funded by the federal government that would boost their monthly take-home pay by up to $500.

  Health

  Dec 29, 2020
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• B.C. government apologizes to thousands of hospital workers still owed pandemic pay

  On Monday, Health Minister Adrian Dix said the employees will get the pay they were promised, adding the process "has been quite complicated."

  Politics

  Dec 15, 2020
• Union members rally outside Alberta hospitals to support health-care workers

  Those attending the rallies are asking Alberta’s provincial government to reinstate pandemic pay and isolation pay and to reverse a decision to cut 11,000 Alberta Health Services jobs.

  Health

  Nov 5, 2020
• Union wants better protections, pandemic pay reinstated for Alberta meat plant, grocery store workers

  A union that represents 32,000 Alberta workers, mainly in food processing and retail sectors, is calling for enhanced safety protections and the return of pandemic pay premiums for essential workers.

  Economy

  Nov 4, 2020
• B.C. Loblaws employees rally on Labour Day to restore COVID-19 pandemic pay

  Members of Unifor want Loblaws to settle a two-week strike in Newfoundland and to restore the pandemic pay to all workers across the country.

  Economy

  Sep 7, 2020
• Coronavirus: Croven Crystal employees demand higher pandemic pay, wages

  "We're willing to stay out here as long as we have to," she said. 

  Canada

  Jun 23, 2020
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• ‘It’s demoralizing:’ Hospital workers in Durham continue to fight for pandemic pay

  "People feel like they don't want to come into work." 

  Canada

  Jun 22, 2020
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• Coronavirus pandemic pay premium has not flowed to workers, Ontario government says

  A spokeswoman for Health Minister Christine Elliott said the initiative is the largest of its kind in Canada and the funding will flow in "very short order" but did not provide a specific date.

  Health

  Jun 15, 2020