Workers should be front and centre in feds’ relief efforts for aviation, hospitality sectors

Any relief for rent, mortgage or other loan payments—and we believe such relief is needed—should be conditioned on hospitality employers committing to keep workers on the payroll through the Canada Emergency Wage Subsidy program.

Canada’s hospitality and travel industries face unprecedented economic devastation due to the pandemic, which has forced activities to grind to a halt. Photo by Ken Yam on Unsplash

Opinion

BY Zailda Chan and Guled Warsame

May 7, 2020

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