Hand-picked Higgs officials living outside Fredericton cost taxpayers extra
Two New Brunswick deputy ministers who have been commuting to Fredericton from the Saint John area to run their departments accumulated thousands of dollars in accommodation and mileage expenses last year moving back and forth between the cities, records show.
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1 deputy got help with Fredericton housing and for drives to 24 meetings in Saint John area, where she lived
Posted: Feb 22, 2021 6:00 AM AT | Last Updated: February 22
Yennah Hurley was personally recruited by Premier Blaine Higgs to advise on tourism matters and eventually run the Tourism Department as its deputy minister. She lives in Quispamsis and billed the province for 24 trips to Saint John in 2020 to attend in-person meetings.(CBC archives)
Horizon Health Network has told employees they need to do a better job of following rules around “hand hygiene,” according to internal memos sent to staff and physicians by the health authority.
N.B. paramedics, nurses and other health-care workers denied time off to get COVID-19 vaccine
Some New Brunswick paramedics, nurses and other health-care workers who were supposed to get the COVID-19 vaccine this weekend are now being denied time off to attend their appointments in Miramichi, even though they re among the priority groups.
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Posted: Dec 11, 2020 5:25 PM AT | Last Updated: December 11, 2020
Higgs confirmed this week that his government has imposed a one-year freeze on salaries for public servants and he hopes to extend it to unionized workers at some point during their next contracts.(Hadeel Ibrahim/CBC)