A former minimum wage committee member feels as if the workers are being left out of the conversation when it comes to the clean up of the aftermath of Snowmaggedon.
Alley Doyle started to make a list of employers that decided to pay their employees during the missed shifts due to the State of Emergency. She is now encouraging people to call on government to give direct aid to low wage workers who have been impacted.
She says Colemans was the first on her list and from there, updating the list became her pastime over that week.
Since then, the Social Justice Co-op of Newfoundland and Common Front NL have created an online form that allows workers to send an email directly to their MP or MHA.
Doyle says being without pay for even a short amount of time is a big deal.
Doyle explains that being paid a low wage and then not being paid for seven days on a low wage is crushing. She says it is not a matter of not having milk for one day – for some people it means having to be out on the street, going to a shelter and using a food bank. It would not just be a minor inconvenience.
