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The Ontario government made updates to unpaid Infectious Disease Emergency Leave (IDEL) and amended the Employment Standards Act, 2000, introducing the Ontario COVID-19 Worker Income Protection Benefit.
Employment Standards Act, 2000 (ESA) to require employers to provide employees up to three days’ pay if they miss work for certain reasons relating to COVID-19 (paid Infectious Disease Emergency Leave (IDEL)), retroactive to April 19, 2021, and until September 25, 2021. The government has recently provided additional information on how employers can be reimbursed for providing IDEL.
Under Bill 284, employees can take IDEL for, among other COVID-19-related reasons:
Taking a COVID-19 test
Being sick with COVID-19
Getting vaccinated
Experiencing a side effect from a COVID-19 vaccination
Having been advised to self-isolate due to COVID-19 by an employer, medical practitioner or other specified authority
Ontario is expanding its COVID-19 safety inspections of manufacturing and food processing workplaces, warehouses, and distribution centres.
About 100 provincial offences officers will visit 1,500 workplaces in Toronto, Hamilton, and regions of Durham, Halton, Peel, and York between May 10 and May 28.
In a May 18 news release, provincial officials said that officers made 718 visits to workplaces during the first week of the campaign, inspecting for COVID-19 workplace safety requirements under the
Reopening Ontario Act. “Officers are checking that employers screen employees and visitors, ensure workers maintain physical distance and be masked, where needed, and that businesses have safety plans, among other measures,” the statement said.
The Ontario government is expanding inspections of manufacturing and food processing workplaces, warehouses and distribution centres.
Approximately 100 provincial offences officers are expected to visit about 1,500 workplaces in Toronto, Hamilton and regions of Durham, Halton, Peel and York between May 10 and May 28 to uphold the results previous inspections have delivered.
“While case counts continue to drop, we can’t take anything for granted when it comes to protecting everyday workers with more contagious variants of COVID-19 entering our country every day,” said Monte McNaughton, Minister of Labour, Training and Skills Development. “We’ve inspected these workplaces regularly throughout the pandemic, but it is important business owners and supervisors continue following health and safety best practices that have helped us get this far. As our government moves forward and continues to respond to the rapidly evolving pandemic, these inspections are a critical tool as we