Dr. Lawrence Loh said that in the absence of provincially legislated paid sick days, Peel Public Health calls on employers to provide paid leave for all employees impacted by COVID-19 or the new safety measures.Peel Region’s top doctor is ordering sweeping new business closings to combat the third wave of COVID-19, as Premier Doug Ford faces growing pushback over his government’s pandemic plan.
Critics have argued that Ontario has left too many businesses open amid continuing workplace outbreaks and more contagious variants. The changes, Peel said, will be in effect as long as the region is under a shutdown or lockdown provincial order. The changes are modelled after similar measures introduced earlier this month in British Columbia, which allow provincial inspectors to expedite the closing of workplaces with COVID-19 transmission for 10 days or more.
The opposition NDP called the government’s management of the pandemic “a horror story” and repeated calls for more closings of non-essential businesses and enhanced sick pay for workers. Liberal Leader Steven Del Duca called on Mr. Ford to resign.
About damn time they got off their butts and did something
Yup, individual paid sick days too expensive, but shutting down whole company much cheaper. fordnation logic
This is not helping anyone
Really incredible how this disproportionately affects BIPOC people but no one seems to care. All these people that talk about equity are just grifters at this point, the people this lockdown hurts most is the people they post about on Instagram from their multimillion $$ homes.
This will help
COVID-19's true origins are: Offshore importation of the virus from China, dilettante quarantine efforts at our national borders and an awful Trudeau-led vaccine procurement program that leaves us all in great peril from virus, variants and partial immunization.
I am tired of bourgeois Doomsday predictors, disguised as reporters, publishing in the Globe and condescendingly blaming Doug Ford's Ontario government for the persistence of this Canadian viral pandemic.
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Learn the truth about the lies. It’s all on my Twitter page. ⚡️
lornecoe Please would the province start to take some appropriate action starting with PaidSickDaysNow
That's insane to think that a business can be shut down by these clueless, unelected officials over a mere FIVE cases. And then this guys says EVERYONE affected should get a 2 week paid holiday from the company because this guy says so? This is a leftist dream, that's for sure.
'Rebuke'?