Category: Moncton

The province is reminding you how public holidays work as Christmas approaches.  Christmas and New Year’s days are paid public holidays under the Employment Standards Act.  Boxing Day is a prescribed day of rest under the Days of Rest Act, but is not a paid public holiday.  In order to qualify, an employee must have been there for at least 90 days.  They’re entitled to a regular day’s pay, and if they work on the holiday they get time and a half.

712 New Brunswickers are in hospitals waiting for nursing home beds.  The Telegraph-Journal obtained numbers after the province decided to negotiate with the feds alone for health funding.  Horizon and Vitalité each say about 27% of their hospital beds are occupied by alternate care patients.