A North Vancouver brewery is wondering if the Canada Emergency Response Benefit is unintentionally keeping people at home. When it tried to hire staff for an summer opening, it discovered many potential candidates were quite comfortable staying on the CERB and as Catherine Urquhart reports, that’s prompting calls to reform the government handout.
- CERB poses back-to-work dilemma: ‘We’re being incentivized to make just under $1,000’
- ‘I can make more money on CERB’: More concerns benefit may be a disincentive for workers