Kristen benefitted from top-up pay and gradual return to work.
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So, one thing was a gradual return to work. So, they were really good at setting up a schedule for me and really giving me the time. Like, if I couldn’t come in that day, I would just take a sick day and it was totally fine with them. So it was, like, a two-hour twice a week, and then, you know, we would go up to four hours twice a week, and then I sort of gradually get back to that level. So that was really great, and the other thing that I really liked too, is they topped up my pay for COVID leave. It wasn’t – I wasn’t deducted any pay because of it, and I thought that that was really great too. I didn’t have to worry about paying my bills.
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