‘Walk The Walk’: Ontario’s Front-Line Workers Call For Paid Sick Days
The people running Ontario’s clinics, nursing homes and grocery stores during the COVID-19 pandemic “deserve more than a ‘thank you,’” one group of front-line workers said Thursday.
“The government refuses to implement
basic paid sick leave protections for the very same people they deem
heroes,” Carolina Jimenez told reporters at a virtual press conference.
She is a registered nurse and the coordinator of the advocacy group Decent Work and Health Network.
“I’m a nurse at a clinic in Toronto and I don’t have paid sick days.”