Alberta Employers looking to temp-lay off employes due to Pandemic
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Your essential arnt you...transportation
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Yes, we are considered an essential service. It’s questionable how essential sales are...lol
That being said we sold trucks last week and the week before.
takethebounce
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Essential doesn’t mean much if there isn’t enough business to support the service.
Airlines for example, parked planes everywhere, can’t travel for leisure, limited international and trans border traffic. Impacts several thousand employees.
Expecting GST increases and most likely a pst once this has passed, if it ever does.
Airlines for example, parked planes everywhere, can’t travel for leisure, limited international and trans border traffic. Impacts several thousand employees.
Expecting GST increases and most likely a pst once this has passed, if it ever does.
snopro
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Fuzz dick isn't backing down on raising the carbon tax he said so not only is there more death there is more taxes coming.
LUCKY 7
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**ck I hate that guy
skegpro
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Education support staff seemed offended they got laid off today.......
snopro
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When do you suppose we will ever see that fat cow Hoffman ever make a plea for anyone in the private sector getting laid off. I may hate her as much as the Turd to be honest.
papajake
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You mean miss piggy on steroids thank you Edmonton for electing her again
Yep, she's about even steven on the hate chart...
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I still laying off one of my workers tomorrow. Tough to show a loss on my books as that usually will show up in 3 months plus as the owner I have to get the hands dirty more often to keep cash flow going. You have to show a sudden decrease of 30% of business to take advantage of the 75% employee wage reimbursement, this is only to a maximum amount per worker as well. There asking us to pay the difference of 25% for workers sitting around but take a loan out to stay in business with the BDC. So Im not planning on going into debt.
I think it will benefit some businesses a lot, like those who can have their employees doing maintenance, repairs, cleaning up yards, etc for basically 1/4 of what it would normally cost. But any business without that it still makes no sense to pay 25% wages if you have nothing for them to do. I wonder if some under the table will keep employees on not pay the 25% so they still end up with 75% instead of EI.
snopro
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Are you crazy? Trudy says all Canadians are honest and will not scam the system. HaHa! He has a higher opinion of the population than I do.
Of course no one will, he said don't do it!
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Yep, a lot of people will surly take advantage of this, I think the only one this would work good for is someone like a restaruant, some stores. I was at home depot to day and it was packed. Best buy has the best system so far, you have to order on line, and pay for in the store. But you must have an order number or they wont let you in. They are probably down to a skeleton staff as most are already. No one can wait days for these plans that they say they would announce today, no details on there site yet though and what you need to qualify. Most small businesses need to pay there staff tomorrow and they need to make the big decision tonight not tomorrow when they make there mind up to give the actual details, then you have to qualify, so what would that detail now, then you wont see any funds till the middle of April, most cant make it another week. Trudy you totally failed at this.
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The 30% is going to be hard to prove for us as well. We have a lot of recurring revenue, but also a lot of recurring non-labour expenses. We lost almost all of non-recurring revenue, but I'm not sure it will quite equal 30%, which means guys are getting laid off if we can't tap in to that wage subsidy. The non-recurring is what kept our guys busy, and most of the profits were getting injected back in to the business keeping guys busy. Without projects and profits to reinvest, things are going to be awful slow for a while. Combine that with the real possibility that a decent chunk of our customer base is likely to start missing payments and/or cancelling services, and we are going to be in a ****ty situation in a hurry.
I am in the same situation.
When we read though the federal 75% subsidy thing today, our understanding was that the employer was to remit only 25% of the regular monthly tax remittance.
So the employer was only compensated by keeping 75% of the income tax deducted. Not 75% wage top up.
Or is there a 2nd subsidy for actual wages that I may have missed?
From reading that it's 75% of wages, but they are paying it through reduced payroll deductions instead of writing checks. So basically you'd get the money back once you cap out the limit and start paying employees full wages and then wouldn't be remitting the taxes.
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I think that document is wrong. That was true for the 10% subsidy, but they are changing things for the 75%. AFAIK they haven't released details yet, and even though they initially said "before the end of the month" they didn't say which month, or which year.
I've been trying to get a hold of Alberta Labour for a few days now but no luck so I'm going to pick your brains a bit. I have a full time guy that is a single dad, he is having trouble finding child care for his young daughter on weeks that he has custody so he has been working a week on a week off. I'm just not sure if their is any government program that will help get him some pay on his off weeks?
any thoughts?
any thoughts?