The improved version of the Lotto 6/49 lottery will be postponed in the province due to the strike by Loto-Québec employees.
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Loto-Québec will thus interrupt the Lotto 6/49 draws after the September 10 draw.
“It is technically impossible to continue the game in its current form beyond this date since the other provinces will migrate to the new improved version,” the company justified in a press release on Wednesday.
Scheduled for September 14, the draw will be postponed only in Quebec.
Validation of Lotto 6/49 tickets will not be possible at retailers or on the app starting September 11, but ticket holders are encouraged to keep their ticket until the situation returns to normal.
Remember that at the end of August, Loto-Québec employees rejected by 72% the agreement in principle that had been reached with management.
“The professional staff of Loto-Québec is particularly disappointed with the employer’s salary offer since it entails a loss of their purchasing power given the inflation of the last few months”, had then indicated the Union of professionals. and professionals from the Quebec government (SPGQ) by press release.
The union also believes that the salaries offered and the impossibility of full-time teleworking when the tasks allow it, for example, “will harm the attraction and retention of staff”.
The SPGQ claims to have proposed to the employer party to meet jointly with the Treasury Board to reach an increase in the current offers, but that “the employer ignored this request” and that it “limits itself to offering an increase in the number of ‘hours of work in order to increase annual wages’.
Affected employees work in areas such as information technology, communications, sales and marketing, finance, procurement and real estate, and the legal sector.