After learning that some health care workers who are sick or must isolate are being forced to take leave without pay, we are calling for Premier Jason Kenney to follow through on his commitment and introduce sustained sick pay.
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The new federal sick pay program, formally called the Canada Recovery Sickness Benefit, does provide eligible recipients with $450 per week after taxes, but it only can only to cover two weeks of leave from work.
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We can’t ask people to choose between paying their bills and obeying public health orders. The federal paid sick leave only lasts for 10 days and it does not apply to people working in hospitals who come into close contact with a patient positive for COVID-19.
Particularly, for the people in our hospitals who are putting themselves in the line of fire of a deadly virus. The very least we can do is make sure front line health care workers can pay their rent and put food on the table.
Alberta is only one of three Canadian provinces not currently providing some form of isolation wage support for physicians, despite the Premier claiming in March, as the first wave of COVID-19 put pressure on hospitals, that he would bring in such a program.
On July 6, Alberta Health Services revoked special paid leave, which provided Alberta nurses with paid leave on top of their collective bargaining agreement. Since then, many nurses have relied on their sick days and other bank days to cover their required isolations.
The provincial government needs to reinstate the special paid leave. We cannot force our nurses and other frontline healthcare workers to sacrifice their banked days off to maintain their income while in isolation.
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