Some industries feel confused, left out of Alberta's Critical Worker Benefit Program
CALGARY -- Months after Alberta's Critical Worker Benefit Program started to hand out pandemic pay bumps to frontline workers, some businesses and employees say they're still waiting for payments and answers. Alberta brewery workers are not eligible to receive the wage top-up, despite producing and selling products to people nearly every day of the pandemic. "Unfortunately most of the (liquor) manufacturers in Alberta don't qualify for the critical workers benefit as it was laid out," said Blair Berdusco with the Alberta Small Brewers Association (ASBA). Money from the provincial an...
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