About 380,000 public and private-sector workers will receive one-time payments of $1,200 for putting themselves at risk on the job during the COVID-19 pandemic. Employees of grocery stores, warehouses, food production, truck drivers and other private-sector workers who earn less than $25 an hour will also be eligible for the bonus pay. Watch | Premier Jason Kenney announces pandemic pay to front-line workersAlberta, federal governments giving $1,200 pandemic pay to front-line workers CBC News Edmonton Video 1:20 Health-care and social-services workers and education support workers are among the public-sector employees who will receive the critical worker benefit, Premier Jason Kenney said Wednesday. Employers will have between Feb. 17 and March 19 to apply to the province for the money to pay workers' bonuses. With employers as gatekeepers of the bonus for private-sector workers, McGowan is worried some low wage earners will never see the money.

Source: CBC News February 10, 2021 17:11 UTC