Union head urges province to send military, Red Cross to Windsor LTC home in major outbreak
The union head representing workers at a Windsor long-term care home in a major COVID-19 outbreak released a letter Tuesday urging the Ontario government to take immediate action and send in the military or Red Cross to fill in staffing gaps.
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Posted: Dec 22, 2020 6:17 PM ET | Last Updated: December 22, 2020
The Village at St. Clair, a long-term care home in Windsor, is one of several long-term care and retirement homes in outbreak, though it has the most number of cases as of Tuesday.(Jacob Barker/CBC)
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A spokesperson for the Ministry of Long Term Care tells 680 NEWS that the ministry sent out the money to long term care homes on December 1 and that “the ministry expects employers to provide the pay as quickly as possible to eligible workers, but we recognize pay periods and payroll systems vary across employers.”