It's a brave move from the government – one which will impact all Canadian employers
The Ontario government has announced an extension to their Worker Income Protection Benefit program – providing COVID-19 sick days – until July 21 2022. The rise of the Omicron variant has led employers to rethink their return to work plans, making it likely that businesses will continue in a WFH capacity into the New Year. With this extension, employees can continue to access this paid leave to get tested, vaccinated, self-isolate, or care for a family member. What’s more, if the Canada Recovery Sickness Benefit be extended, workers in Ontario have access to the most generous paid sick days program in Canada.
HRD spoke to Michael Horvat, partner at Aird & Berlis, to understand what this extension means for Ontario businesses and their people.
“Generally, the extension of the layoff protection is not new, and has been periodically extended during the pandemic,” Horvat told HRD. “The goal is to not artificially create a statutory severance ‘cliff’ at which time, at least for employment standards notice or severance, where the statutory triggering creates an obligation to pay notice or severance prematurely, which causes the problem the government wants to avoid, which is potentially placing those businesses that in jeopardy at a financial risk that would then push them over.”
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