On Thursday, June 18, 2020, Premier Brian Pallister announced that the province has created a new initiative to help get people back to work this summer.
The “Manitoba Back to Work This Summer” initiative is a program designed to help Manitoba-based businesses recover from the COVID-19 pandemic. Under the program the province will pay 50 per cent of wages for up to five employees who are hired or rehired after June 18th to a maximum of $5,000 per employee and $25,000 per business.
“We appreciate our many local businesses that temporarily closed their doors, reduced capacity or changed the way they operate in order to help flatten the COVID-19 curve and follow provincial public health orders,” said Pallister. “Those closures and changes come at a cost to businesses, and we want to ease their road to recovery by covering half the wages paid to designated employees over a period of up to 10 weeks this summer.”
The funding runs for a total of 10 weeks from June 18 until August 30, 2020.
Charities, not-for-profit organizations and public-sector employers are not eligible for this program.
© News4.ca 2020
