COVID-19.As it stands, the package includes caregiver payments for anyone who can’t go to work because their child’s school or daycare is closed, or the child has to be kept home as a precaution.To get the help after the fact, workers would have to show they could not work at least 60 per cent of their usual hours, or about three days out of a five-day work week.
What we know so far about the CERB to EI transition Employment Minister Carla Qualtrough says she’s heard that eligibility criteria might be too restrictive for parents who have to take off a day or two to wait in hours-long lines for COVID-19 tests.She says the proposed package and eligibility rules are a baseline and that the government wants them to be flexible to take into.