{"id":19696,"date":"2020-09-28T09:30:51","date_gmt":"2020-09-28T13:30:51","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.benefitscanada.com\/news\/ndp-support-for-throne-speech-contingent-on-federal-paid-sick-days-150358"},"modified":"2020-09-28T09:30:51","modified_gmt":"2020-09-28T13:30:51","slug":"ndp-support-for-throne-speech-contingent-on-paid-sick-leave","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/blog.lifeinsurance-orleans.ca\/index.php\/2020\/09\/28\/ndp-support-for-throne-speech-contingent-on-paid-sick-leave\/","title":{"rendered":"NDP support for throne speech contingent on paid sick leave"},"content":{"rendered":"<div class=\"alignleft clearfix\">\n<div class=\"wp-caption feature-image alignleft\"> <img decoding=\"async\" loading=\"lazy\" width=\"316\" height=\"190\" src=\"https:\/\/www.benefitscanada.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/12\/AbsenceManagement-SickLeave-iStock.png\" class=\"attachment-feature size-feature wp-post-image\" alt title=\"NDP support for throne speech contingent on paid sick leave\"> <\/div>\n<\/p><\/div>\n<p class=\"byline\"> <span>Staff<\/span>&nbsp;|&nbsp;September 28, 2020 <\/p>\n<p>New Democratic Party Leader Jagmeet Singh said his party will support <a href=\"https:\/\/www.benefitscanada.com\/news\/what-did-the-throne-speech-promise-for-employers-workers-150231\">last week\u2019s throne speech<\/a> on the condition that more Canadians be granted access to paid sick leave as part of draft legislation covering the federal response to the coronavirus epidemic.<\/p>\n<p>The proposed legislation,&nbsp;Bill C-2, would see Canadians receiving the Canada Emergency Response Benefit transition to a version of employment insurance with enhanced eligibility or to one of three other new benefits.<\/p>\n<p><strong>Read:<a href=\"https:\/\/www.benefitscanada.com\/news\/what-did-the-throne-speech-promise-for-employers-workers-150231\">What did the throne speech promise for employers and workers?<\/a><\/strong><\/p>\n<p>In a press conference Friday night, Singh said his party\u2019s support is contingent on changes to the wording of Bill C-2 to significantly increase the number of Canadians who will receive paid sick days. \u201cToday marks the first step in achieving the first ever, in the history of our country, federal paid sick leave for Canadian workers,\u201d he said.<\/p>\n<p> <a href=\"https:\/\/www.benefitscanada.com\/news\/ndp-support-for-throne-speech-contingent-on-federal-paid-sick-days-150358\">Read the full article at BenefitsCanada.com<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Staff&nbsp;|&nbsp;September 28, 2020 New Democratic Party Leader Jagmeet Singh said his party will support last week\u2019s throne speech on the condition that more Canadians be granted access to paid sick leave as part of&#46;&#46;&#46;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":[],"categories":[],"tags":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/blog.lifeinsurance-orleans.ca\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/19696"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/blog.lifeinsurance-orleans.ca\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/blog.lifeinsurance-orleans.ca\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blog.lifeinsurance-orleans.ca\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blog.lifeinsurance-orleans.ca\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=19696"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/blog.lifeinsurance-orleans.ca\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/19696\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/blog.lifeinsurance-orleans.ca\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=19696"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blog.lifeinsurance-orleans.ca\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=19696"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blog.lifeinsurance-orleans.ca\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=19696"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}