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Paid sick leave is essential to stopping the pandemic But the Ford government is not budging on calls to provide 10 days of paid sick leave as the virus spreads among frontline workers By Julia Mastroianni Samuel Engelking As Ontario struggles to contain the second wave of the coronavirus, the lack of paid sick days for essential frontline workers is only adding to the number of cases. On Monday, the Toronto Board of Health voted unanimously in favour of a motion asking the provincial ...

(Photo: iStock) As many provinces struggle through a second wave of COVID-19, the economic disparity among Canadian workers is becoming more evident than ever. A report by the Decent Work and Health Network (DWHN), an Ontario-based group of healthcare workers and advocates calling for better health through improved working conditions, found that 58 percent of workers in Canada don’t have access to paid sick leave, and this number jumps to 70 percent for low-wage workers. With the pandemic f...

CDC Group, the United Kingdom’s development finance institution and impact investor has announced a $100 million debt commitment to the Eastern and Southern African Trade and Development Bank (TDB). According to a statement yesterday, the investment strengthens TDB’s capacity to provide additional amounts of credit to businesses in need of short-term financing. It further stated that CDC’s commitment supports the import, export and production of strategic inputs and agricultural commodity...

January 19, 2021 The Diplomat has removed paywall restrictions on our coverage of the COVID–19 crisis. A street vendor sells fruits in Hanoi, Vietnam on Thursday, July 30, 2020. Credit: AP Photo/Hau Dinh Advertisement It is quite evident that the pandemic has exacerbated many existing negative trends. From rising income inequalities to what is now a gaping digital divide, COVID-19 has laid bare pre-existing weaknesses in governance and social protection provision in Southeast Asia, as much a...

New York, NY, United States of America UN Global Compact Board approves new strategy to scale up business ambition and action to achieve the SDGs and Paris Agreement on Climate Change      UNITED NATIONS, New York, 19 January 2021 — UN Secretary-General, António Guterres, Chair of the Board of the UN Global Compact, today announced a new three-year strategic plan to increase and accelerate corporate sustainability and principled business. "The United Nations Global Compact is uniquely po...

Stay home. This has been one of the driving messages we’ve heard throughout the pandemic to combat the spread of COVID-19. Last week, the Ontario government’s stay-at-home order came into effect and the province entered its second state of emergency.

Posted: Jan 14, 2021 1:02 PM ET | Last Updated: January 15 A man holds up a sign as a group advocating for provincially mandated paid sick days for workers participates in a die-in rally outside Queens Park in Toronto, Wednesday, Jan. 13, 2021. Advocates say the federal sickness benefit doesnt offer enough protection to convince all essential workers to stay at home if they are sick.(Cole Burston/The Canadian Press) The federal sick leave program that was created to make sure people wouldnt fac...

Stay in the loop Sign up for our free email newsletter. Unsubscribe anytime or contact us for details. Premier Doug Ford announced a list of new restrictions for Ontario yesterday at a time when casesof COVID-19 are expected to reach alarming new heights and hospitals are nearly overwhelmed, but his announcement was missing the one measure experts have been demanding for months: paid sick leave.  Doctors, nurses, public officials, teachers, warehouse workers, and other members of the p...

4 Min Read TORONTO (Reuters) - As Canadian provinces struggle to contain rising COVID-19 infections, a lack of adequate paid sick leave for front-line workers is fuelling transmission, doctors and advocates say. Pharmacy technician supervisor Tamara Booth Rumsey prepares a Pfizer-BioNTech coronavirus disease (COVID-19) vaccine at The Michener Institute, in Toronto, Canada January 4, 2021. REUTERS/Carlos Osorio While political leaders and health officials advise sick people to stay home, many pe...

Inadequate paid sick leave helping fuel Canada’s spiralling COVID-19 cases, doctors and advocates say Anna Mehler Paperny Bookmark Please log in to listen to this story. Also available in French and Mandarin. Log In Create Free Account Getting audio file ... This translation has been automatically generated and has not been verified for accuracy. Full Disclaimer DARRYL DYCK/The Canadian Press As Canadian provinces struggle to contain rising COVID-19 infections, a lack of adequate paid...