Paid sick leave and the empathy gap

If politicians are unable to relate to the struggles of people they don’t often meet, maybe they’ll realize that paying sick people to stay home ultimately benefits the bottom line.

Ontario Premier Doug Ford, pictured Sept. 18, 2020, in Ottawa. The Ford government's belated, timid, half-measure on paid sick leave, embraced reluctantly, is being marketed as a 'game-changer,' 14 months and 8,000 Ontario lives later, writes Susan Riley. The Hill Times photograph by Andrew Meade

Opinion

BY SUSAN RILEY

May 3, 2021

CHELSEA, QUE.—Three days. That’s the paid sick leave Ontario workers will be eligible to receive until the benefit ends Sept. 25. It comes more than 400 days into a pandemic that has cut devastating swaths through factories, seniors homes, retail outlets, offices and shop floors. Three days to t...

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