Dollarama Is Giving All Of Its Employees In Canada A Bonus For Working During The Pandemic

Pandemic pay! 💰
Senior Writer

To recognize all the hard work being done this year, Dollarama is giving every single store employee in Canada a bonus.

The Canadian retailer will give the one-time "gratitude" bonus payment to all of the more than 26,000 store workers across the country.

This is in recognition of their work to provide people with essential products safely throughout the COVID-19 pandemic.

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$300 bonus for full-time Dollarama employees

All full-time employees will get a bonus of $300.

For part-time workers, the extra payment will be a little less at $200.

This one-time gratitude bonus will be given to everyone who was an active store employee as of December 9.

It was recently announced that Walmart will be giving every full-time worker $250 and every part-time worker $150 as a bonus.

Sobeys has also brought back hero pay for employees who are working in lockdown areas.

  • Senior Writer

    Lisa Belmonte (she/her) is a Senior Writer with Narcity Media. After graduating with a Bachelor of Journalism from Toronto Metropolitan University (formerly Ryerson University), she joined the Narcity team. Lisa covers news and notices from across the country from a Canada-wide perspective. Her early coverage of the COVID-19 pandemic earned Narcity its first-ever national journalism award nomination.

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