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Small Businesses Need the Government to Legislate Paid Sick Leave
STATEMENT - Small Businesses Need the Government to Legislate Paid Sick Leave April 28, 2021 As small business owners, we are exhausted from trying to keep our businesses afloat through this pandemic. The refusal of the provincial government to do their part to keep...
Business owners call for province to legislate paid sick days for all
In an online press conference today, business owners from across Ontario came together today to call for the provincial government to legislate guaranteed paid sick leave for all workers. Small and mid-sized businesses know firsthand that paid sick days are good for...
Paid Sick Days are Good for Small Business!
What is it? Workers in Canada need a minimum of seven paid sick days, and 14 in a pandemic. A paid sick day is just that – you are paid your full wage for the day with no deductions and no requirement to make up the time unpaid later. You won’t be penalized, demoted...
It’s Time to Tackle the Commercial Rent Crisis for Small Business
Many small businesses across Ontario and the rest of Canada are gradually adjusting to re-opening. New challenges and problems are cropping up for local businesses every day: how to space out or schedule staff, how to make sure there is enough hand sanitizer and face...
Businesses: As we prepare to reopen during COVID-19, all employees need paid sick days
Employees across Canada have been impacted inequitably by COVID-19. Many of us have been shocked to learn that huge numbers of essential workers don’t have paid sick days, including - shockingly - thousands of frontline healthcare workers. The evidence also shows that...
Could commercial rent control pay for paid sick days?
How to be a good employer during a crisis and beyond
Even as we've been figuring out a "new normal" since the start of COVID-19, decent work businesses are thinking about how to be a good employer during a crisis. After all, when we open up again, we want our staff to be financially secure. And we want our customers to...
Urgent commercial rent relief needed for small businesses during COVID-19
We are facing a huge public health and economic crisis, and we need commercial rent relief now. For the most part, small businesses are not in a position to take on more debt or benefit from tax deferrals. Reductions in property taxes are not a solution, for the...
Help for small businesses during COVID-19
The news changes day by day, but here’s what we know about help for small businesses during COVID-19 as of June 12, 2020. Help with staffing costs while business slows down 1. Wage subsidies - 75% CEWS and 10% CRA subsidy The Canada Emergency Wage Subsidy (CEWS)...