Backgrounder

(April 16, 2020) Decent Work & Health Network Press Conference: Essential Workers Say Precarious Employment is Still a Health Hazard

Frontline workers at risk; yet paid sick days still not mandatory 

April 15:     Calgary hospital workers test positive for COVID-19 – “staff were concerned that some of those who’d been in contact with infected colleagues were still told to come into work.”
(Source:https://calgaryherald.com/news/staff-at-foothills-maternity-ward-tested-positive-for-covid-19/)

April 15:     News reports reveal 13 staff at a Markham group home for adults with disabilities in Ontario have tested positive for COVID-19
(Source:https://globalnews.ca/news/6823485/coronavirus-markham-group-home-outbreak-turns-deadly/)

April 14:     Ontario government says “857 health-care workers have tested positive for the virus since the beginning of the outbreak.”
(Source:https://www.cbc.ca/news/canada/london/london-covid19-local-hospitals-1.5532029)

April 10:     Second Dartmouth NS Superstore employee tests positive for COVID-19 (Source:https://globalnews.ca/news/6805608/superstore-employee-tests-postiive/)

April 9:        Cleaner at Brampton Civic Hospital ON dies from COVID-19 related complications
(Source:https://globalnews.ca/news/6801263/coronavirus-brampton-civic-hospital-worker-dies-covid19/)

April 3:        Winnipeg MB Superstore employee tests positive for COVID-19
(Source:https://globalnews.ca/news/6774950/winnipeg-superstore-closed-employee-coronavirus/)

March 25:  Oshawa ON Superstore employee the youngest person in Canada to die from COVID-19
(Source:https://toronto.ctvnews.ca/grocery-store-worker-who-died-of-covid-19-fought-virus-until-last-breath-1.4871097)