Premier Brian Pallister has announced a new Manitoba Pandemic Sick Leave Program to provide direct financial assistance to help fill gaps between federal programming and current provincial employment standards for paid sick leave.
He explains the program will provide all private sector, non-profit and charitable employers with up to six hundred dollars per eligible employee for up to five days for COVID-19 related sick leave. That includes testing, vaccinations, side effects, self-isolation due to COVID-19 symptoms, and care for a loved one in any of these circumstance.
The eligibility period begins today and runs until September 25th.
