If I am an essential worker (or permitted to work at my job), can I refuse to go to work because I am concerned about getting the virus? If so, can I collect the CERB? If your employer is: maintaining physical distancing in the workplace; practicing all federally, provincially and municipally ordered and recommended […]
April 27, 2020 – the Ontario Government announced it’s “Framework for Reopening our Province”. no hard dates no specific businesses or services identified each stage is estimated to be two-to-four weeks, subject to virus containment STAGE 1: “select workplaces” that can immediately modify their operations to meet physical-distancing requirements, such as using curb-side pickup or
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New Ontario emergency order affecting employers who provide mental health and addiction services (“Mental Health Agencies”), per Ontario’s Emergency Management and Civil Protection Act: Mental Health Agencies now have broad discretion and flexibility to take “any reasonably necessary measure to respond to, prevent and alleviate the outbreak” of COVID-19 and “to respond to consequences arising
Every employer in the City of Kawartha Lakes has a duty to take all reasonable steps to ensure the health and safety of employees, pursuant to Ontario’s Occupational Health and Safety Act. According to Inspectors from the Ministry of Labour currently, generally in terms of COVID-19, this means: maintaining physical distancing all times in the
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