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Alberta's Opposition leader slams UCP, for big COVID-19 bonus to Hinshaw
BY THE CANADIAN PRESS, Aug 4, 2022 2:50 PM - REPORT AN ERRORAlberta's Opposition N-D-P leader says the United Conservatives must bear the responsibility -- and the fallout -- for the record-setting six-figure bonus payment to the chief medical officer of health during COVID-19.
Rachel Notley says she isn't passing judgment on whether the payout to Dr. Deena Hinshaw is merited.
But she says the payout has to be set against a government that, at the same time, was trying to cut the pay of front-line health workers in collective bargaining.
The government's sunshine salary list shows that Hinshaw received a bonus of almost 228-thousand dollars for COVID-19 work in 2021 -- the highest such cash benefit payout to any provincial civil servant since the list went public.
That figure, on top of her regular salary, put Hinshaw's take-home pay at more than 591-thousand dollars.
Alberta Health has said Hinshaw was paid as per a long-standing policy and financial calculation tied to emergencies.
The payout was one of the COVID-19 bonuses paid to 107 managers totalling more than two-million dollars.
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