EDMONTON --
Employees at a home for persons with developmental disabilities are celebrating after an arbitrator found the provincial government was not meeting its own policies on compensation.
On Friday, an arbitrator determined that the provincial government violated its pandemic single-site policy for staff at Michener Centre.
The Michener Centre in Red Deer is a provincially run facility for adults with developmental disabilities.
The province’s single site order mandates all staff working in a long-term care home or designated supportive living facility are required to work at only one site for the duration of the pandemic.
The policy was intended to curb COVID-19 transmission and was backed by a ministerial order signed by Labour and Immigration Minister Jason Copping in April 2020.