Former clients praise striking restorative justice caseworkers
"'Community Justice Society caseworkers handle 90 per cent of the caseload probation officers do, but on average earn 57 per cent of the pay,' said NDP MLA and justice critic Claudia Chender.
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Chender said it’s insulting the government can’t come to the table over $200,000.
'We just heard about a multimillion-dollar surplus in the most recent accounting of the provincial government,' said Chender. 'This is a rounding error.'"