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Canucks Find Jobs For Arena Workers At Senior Care Centers

The Canucks are offering the services of some Rogers Arena workers to "Vancouver-area care homes that are facing staffing shortages" amid the coronavirus pandemic, according to Thomas Ketko of SPORTSNET.ca. The deployment will "run in tandem" with Canucks Sports & Entertainment's plan to "provide financial support to part-time employees." The B.C. Care Providers Association indicated that having more workers at care homes "will provide relief to seniors' care providers, allowing them to augment their cleaning protocols to help prevent" the spread of the virus. Canucks staffers will be "tasked with a range of responsibilities, including cleaning, security, front-desk greeting and food preparation." Canucks Owner Francesco Aquilini on Sunday tweeted, "Very proud of the Canucks staff offering to fight for those most vulnerable to COVID-19 by helping at under-staffed senior care homes" (SPORTSNET.ca, 3/15).

CHALLENGES MET: In Vancouver, Ben Kuzma noted Canucks COO Trent Carroll had been looking for ways to "increase employment insurance protection" for part-time arena staff, and the team was "approached by a number of companies looking to fill pressing voids," including the B.C. Care Providers Association. Carroll: "We're not sending them anywhere where there has been a coronavirus identification and we're going to pay the wages. And there are a couple of other programs for part-timers that we're looking into." Meanwhile, Kuzma noted a "young office worker in the business tower adjacent to Rogers Arena had contracted the coronavirus." That forced the team to close their office yesterday for a "thorough cleaning" and institute a work-from-home program. It also caused "logistic challenges with reworking the phone systems, business transactions and season-ticket renewal season, but being prudent on the health front with the coronavirus discovery was obviously imperative." Should the NHL season resume, the Canucks will institute a "social-distancing program to keep arena patrons a healthy distance from each other," though that will be a "significant challenge in trying to house 18,000 raucous fans" (Vancouver PROVINCE, 3/16).

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