{"id":26212,"date":"2020-03-19T19:42:03","date_gmt":"2020-03-19T23:42:03","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.newspapers-online.com\/auroran\/?p=26212"},"modified":"2020-03-19T19:42:12","modified_gmt":"2020-03-19T23:42:12","slug":"province-introduces-job-protection-for-workers-during-covid-19-situation","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newspapers-online.com\/auroran\/province-introduces-job-protection-for-workers-during-covid-19-situation\/","title":{"rendered":"Province introduces job protection for workers during COVID-19 situation"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">The Ontario Government is moving to put new measures in\nplace to protect workers during the COVID-19 crisis.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">On Monday, Premier Doug Ford and Minister of Labour Monte\nMcNaughton announced the government\u2019s intention to introduce new legislation\nwhich, if passed quickly, would \u201cimmediately provide job-protected leave to\nemployees in isolation or quarantine due to COVID-19\u201d as well as those who need\nto take time away from work to care for their children amid school and day care\nclosures.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">&#8220;While everyone&#8217;s concerns about their health and\nsafety is top of mind, the last thing we need is anyone worrying about job\nsecurity as the COVID-19 situation evolves,&#8221; said Ford. &#8220;That&#8217;s why I\ndirected the Minister of Labour, Training and Skills Development to draft\nlegislation that will protect workers and their families during this difficult\nperiod.&#8221;<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">Added the Minister: &#8220;Mothers and fathers who need to\ncare for children or dependants shouldn&#8217;t have to worry about losing their job.\nThe same goes for people who receive medical or public health advice and are\nrequired to take precautions as a result. They shouldn&#8217;t have to worry about\nlosing their job. In this time of uncertainty, we need to support employees who\nmust isolate or quarantine themselves, or who need to care for a loved one.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">The proposed legislation would, if passed, provide job\nprotection for employees unable to work for the following reasons:<\/p>\n\n\n\n<ul class=\"wp-block-list\"><li>The employee is under medical investigation, supervision or treatment for COVID-19.<\/li><li>The employee is acting in accordance with an order under the Health Protection and Promotion Act.<\/li><li>The employee is in isolation or quarantine.<\/li><li>The employee is acting in accordance with public health information or direction.<\/li><li>The employer directs the employee not to work.<\/li><li>The employee needs to provide care to a person for a reason related to COVID-19 such as a school or day-care closure.<\/li><\/ul>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">The proposed legislation would also make it clear that an\nemployee will not be required to provide a medical note if they take the leave.\nThe measures would be retroactive to January 25, 2020, the date that the first\npresumptive COVID-19 case was confirmed in Ontario.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The Ontario Government is moving to put new measures in place to protect workers during the COVID-19 crisis. On Monday, Premier Doug Ford and Minister of Labour Monte McNaughton announced the government\u2019s intention to introduce new legislation which, if passed quickly, would \u201cimmediately provide job-protected leave to employees in isolation or quarantine due to COVID-19\u201d [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":3,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[4,5],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-26212","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-general_news","category-news"],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newspapers-online.com\/auroran\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/26212","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newspapers-online.com\/auroran\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newspapers-online.com\/auroran\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newspapers-online.com\/auroran\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/3"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newspapers-online.com\/auroran\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=26212"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newspapers-online.com\/auroran\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/26212\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newspapers-online.com\/auroran\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=26212"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newspapers-online.com\/auroran\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=26212"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newspapers-online.com\/auroran\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=26212"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}