Ontario Paid Sick Days

• Ontario to get rid of temporary paid sick days, lift some COVID measures in LTC homes

  Two senior government sources say the COVID-19 sick day program that provided three paid days off to workers during the pandemic will expire at the end of the month.

  Health

  Mar 22, 2023
  
• Ontario government will extend paid sick days program until July

  The government announced Tuesday that program, which had been due to expire at the end of this month, will remain in place until July 31.

  Health

  Dec 7, 2021
  
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• Freelance and gig workers left out of Ontario COVID-19 sick day program

  "It feels just like another way that we have been forgotten," Toronto-based photographer Anastasia Panakos told Global News.

  Health

  Apr 29, 2021
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• Ontario COVID-19 modelling shows high-level cresting of cases, but ICUs and workplaces major issues

  "There's clear reason for hope, but this hope requires a commitment, dead-set determination to see the job through."

  Health

  Apr 29, 2021
• Ontario’s COVID-19 paid sick leave program to include 3 days for workers

  The Ontario COVID-19 Worker Income Protection Program will see employers reimbursed 100 per cent of an employee's wage for up to $200 a day.

  Health

  Apr 28, 2021
• COVID-19: Ontario proposes federal benefit top-up as plan on sick day program still not announced

  The proposed top-up comes days after Premier Doug Ford promised "one of the best" paid sick day programs in North America, but details on that potential plan still aren't known.

  Health

  Apr 27, 2021
• Paid sick leave left out of Ontario government’s 2021 budget

  Finance Minister Peter Bethlenfalvy defended the government's decision to not enact a provincial program, saying the federal government offers temporary benefits for workers.

  Politics

  Mar 24, 2021