Labatt has decided to phase out the free beer perk for retirees It is the end of the free-beer era for Canadian retirees of a major brewery. Labatt announced it is cutting off the allotment of free beer for its former employees by 2019. The perk has been part of the company's retirement package for more than half a century. Labatt was founded in Canada but was sold in 1995, and is now owned by Bel
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