Catherine Chen, a 26-year-old from Mississauga, Ont., says she’s worked 50 to 60 hours a week during the novel coronavirus pandemic.
She splits her time between two jobs: one at a grocery store and another as a server turned take-out manager at a local restaurant. “I was working maybe 70 to 80 hours a week.
But now it’s been slow,” she said. Chen’s main place of employment is Loblaws, where she’s a cashier and also helps manage some of the employees.
She’s been impressed with the company’s response to COVID-19, including its efforts to provide personal protective equipment to staff, setting up plexiglass shields at all the checkouts and implementing physical distancing measures to keep people apart in the store.