By The Canadian Press

COVID-19

UCP must bear bonus fallout says Notley

Aug 3, 2022 | 5:46 PM

EDMONTON – Alberta’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 $228,000 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.

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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 $2 million.

(The Canadian Press)