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Opposition parties have been joined by labour leaders in calling for the province to take the lead in a paid sick leave program.
NDP Leader Wab Kinew used the backdrop of the National Day of Mourning for worksite deaths to apply pressure on Premier Brian Pallister to put together a permanent paid sick leave program and a program that will grant employees three hours of paid sick leave to get vaccinated.
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“Making these investments now is smart for the health and safety of our community, but it’s also a smart investment from a business perspective because making paid sick leave available to workers … helps brings us closer to the end of the pandemic,” said Kinew.
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“The need to protect public health and paycheques during this pandemic and beyond is simply too great for government to ignore,” Keven Rebeck said in his statement. (Ruth Bonneville / Free Press files)
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At least 1,227 people in Manitoba contracted COVID-19 on the job last year, an internal Workers Compensation Board document reveals.
The Manitoba Federation of Labour obtained the document and shared it with the
Free Press. Far too many workers face the impossible choice between putting food on the table and protecting public health by staying home when they are sick because they don’t have paid sick days on the job, the union organization’s president, Kevin Rebeck, said in an emailed statement.
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