However, the criteria for each sector is different. There are also two different deadlines for private-sector employers to apply for the cash for their employees.
The government s website at first said non-profit sector workers were ineligible for the benefit. Then, on Thursday, under fire from the Opposition, two cabinet ministers issued statements saying non-profit sector employees who work for organizations that receive provincial funding will qualify for the benefit.
I have heard some concerns from frontline workers who are worried about being excluded & I would like to provide some clarification on the Critical Worker Benefit and the eligibility of workers in the non-profit sector. a href https://twitter.com/hashtag/ableg?src hash&ref src twsrc%5Etfw #ableg /a 1/3—@JasonCoppingAB
Everything you need to know about COVID-19 in Alberta on Sunday, Feb. 14
A Calgary lab has partnered with a pharmacy chain that has a strong presence in rural southern Alberta to offer fee-based asymptomatic COVID-19 tests. Meanwhile, the province announced it will suspend its border pilot at the Calgary airport when new federal testing requirements come into effect.
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A man wears a mask in downtown Calgary on Oct. 30 amid a worldwide COVID-19 pandemic.(Jeff McIntosh/The Canadian Press)
A Calgary lab has partnered with a pharmacy chain that has a strong presence in rural southern Alberta to offer fee-based asymptomatic COVID-19 tests. Meanwhile, the province announced it will suspend its border pilot at the Calgary airport when new federal testing requirements come into effect.
Article content Ken Rosenau, president of Rosenau Transport Ltd., said he estimates up to 70 per cent of his 704 employees could be eligible for the benefit. Postmedia, file
Ken Rosenau, president of Rosenau Transport Ltd., estimates that up to 70 per cent of his 704 employees could potentially be eligible for the benefit, although he is still waiting on specifics beyond the required 300 working hours between Oct. 12 and Jan. 31 and the $25 hourly wage limit in the private sector.
More details are expected to be released on Feb. 17, when applications will open for private employers to submit on behalf of their employees.
Rosenau said the benefit helps and there would be no reason for him not to support team members, but the administrative burden of having to apply on behalf of those employees could represent a “huge” expense, depending on how the government rolls the program out.