Renewed calls for essential workers to receive paid sick days as third wave threatens health-care system
TORONTO -- Doctors and community advocates are angry and frustrated the Ontario government hasn’t created a plan for all essential workers to receive paid sick days when they stay home due to COVID-19. On Friday Ontario Premier Doug Ford announced new restrictions but nothing around paid sick days, despite workplaces being a significant source of virus spread. “It was infuriating,” Michelle Dagnino, Executive Director of the Jane and Finch community and family centre told CTV News Toronto Monday. Dagnino said she’s pushing workers to received two weeks of paid leave but two t...
Source: toronto.ctvnews.ca