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  CALGARY -- Some frontline workers deemed essential under previous public health restrictions say they’re frustrated to discover they do not qualify for the recently announced Critical Worker Benefit. The joint federal-provincial program will issue a one-time $1,200 cheque to about 380,000 eligible Alberta workers this spring, meant to act as a sort of retroactive danger pay. Among workers eligible for the benefit are grocery store clerks, gas station attendants, retail sales supervisors, couriers and security guards. Peter Corry is semi-retired and works as a clerk at a large grocer...

Specialist fund administration: The brain gain for private equity fund admin There is no stopping private equity – or the specialist administration firms that provide services to private equity funds. There are said to be more than 2,000 specialist fund administrators, many rooted in the trust and corporate services sector that traditionally provides legal and accountancy work for ‘special purpose vehicles’ (SPVs) – the structures often used for private equity funds as well as wealthy individual and family-office investors. Growth in private equity, debt, real estate and infrastructur...

Changed days: actress Allison Harding working as a chef in a care home in Belfast "Earlier this year I signed up with a temping agency and now I'm working for an NHS trust, covering people who are shielding and cooking in a children's home at Flaxfield, as well as Glenmore Cottage and Lindsay House," she says. "I start at 10am and finish at 5.30pm. I spray everything down, start lunch and then once lunch is done I prep for their tea. "I enjoy working with the children - we asked if we could get a budget for teaching singing and speaking to improve their confidence."