CERB: There’s a shortage of decent employers – Nova Scotia Advocate
The food service industry only brought back half of its workforce. Other industries are struggling to open, including the film industry. After taxes, CERB is about $415.00. The minimum wage in Nova Scotia is $12.55, you would have to put in 39.8 hrs a week to get $500 gross. CERB is not rich by any stretch of the imagination. Getting workers to come back to work deserves a new conversation: let talk about the low wage economy, that far too many employers offer low wages, no reliable hours like 40 hrs a week and a lack of benefits.
Many of those same employers fought hard against a higher minimum wage, sick days, improvements to employment insurance, minimum labour standards, pensions and health and safety laws.
Accusing workers of being addicted to handouts is hypocritical while you’re lined up at the government trough for handouts – shame on you.