Agnico Eagle looks at bringing its Nunavut employees back to work – Nunatsiaq News

Feb 15, 2021

Now that a COVID-19 vaccination program has started in Nunavut, Agnico Eagle Mines Ltd. is looking at bringing its Nunavut-based employees back to work sometime this year, the company said last week in its year-end financial report for 2020.

To protect vulnerable Nunavut communities, Agnico Eagle’s Nunavut workers have stayed home since the start of the pandemic last March. The company continues to pay 75 per cent of their salaries.

For the fourth quarter of 2020 — from October to December — that amounted to $3.7 million in pre-tax income for the company’s stay-at-home Nunavut workers.

But this year, as Nunavut’s vaccination program continues to progress, the company is preparing to “re-integrate the Nunavut-based workforce,” Agnico Eagle said.

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