These B.C. companies landed on Forbes annual list of Canada s best employers
The top-ranked B.C. employer on this year s list is the University of Victoria, coming in at No. 12.
Jan 30, 2021 9:55 PM By: Megan Lalonde
Both employers and employees have struggled during the COVID-19 pandemic. Getty Images
There s no question that both employers and employees faced a wide variety of challenges last year, thanks to the COVID-19 pandemic. But despite the fact that Canada’s unemployment rose significantly from 5.6 per cent last year to about 8.6 per cent now many companies, organizations and industries still managed to make it through 2020 successfully.
As they await the result, they will be required to quarantine for three days at a supervised hotel. The stay will cost $2,000 per person – which includes the cost of private tests and the hotel stay.
If they receive a negative test result, they can go home to quarantine with enhanced supervision. But if the test is positive, they will be taken to a government facility.
Trudeau said these “decisions are not made lightly” and are “informed, effective decisions that take in all factors and their consequences.”
“My priority is to protect Canadians,” said the Prime Minister.
A spokesperson from the YVR Airport Authority tells Daily Hive that they’re “aware” of the new travel restrictions and requirements.
COVID-19 outbreak at Indiana religious order kills 2 sisters
January 27, 2021 GMT
TERRE HAUTE, Ind. (AP) A western Indiana order of nuns is facing a COVID-19 outbreak that has killed two sisters and two residents at a long-term care unit on the order’s campus, a spokesman says.
The precise number of COVID-19 cases at the Sisters of Providence of St. Mary-of-the-Woods was not available Wednesday, said spokesman Jason Moon. But all sisters and residents in long-term care at Providence Health Care who have tested positive are in isolation, he told the Tribune-Star.
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Moon said two sisters have died from complications of COVID-19, as have two residents in the long-term care unit at the healthcare center, which is open to local residents in need of long-term care or rehabilitation.