‘This measure will provide flexibility to employers to recall employees once work picks up again after this difficult time period and avoid severing their employment’
‘The restaurant remained closed for several days while professional cleaning services worked to sanitize the store’
Greater Toronto Area alone has 241,000 tech industry jobs
"During this unprecedented period of uncertainty and hardship, our government is doing everything possible to support businesses and protect jobs"
Government also making temporary changes to nominee program
More than two-thirds of those received no compensation for lost hours
Just 5 per cent of small employers plan to hire in next 3 months
‘These are welcome steps in recognizing the integral work of members during the COVID-19 crisis’
‘The only way to prevent massive additional unemployment is for government to introduce a much larger wage subsidy program’
Government defers WCB premiums until 2021
