COVID-19 pandemic.“With cases rising exponentially, Alberta is on track to see thousands of new COVID-19 cases each day in the very near future,” she said on Tuesday.“We cannot contain the virus and keep our communities safe unless people have the ability to stay home when they’re sick.”Earlier this year, nurses who were forced to self-isolate because they had COVID-19 or were a close contact of someone with the disease were able to get paid leave to compensate them for their absence.
Alberta Health Service stopped that practice in July.Currently, health-care workers who must self-isolate need to rely on sick days or banked time to financially cover their absences, or rely on the federal government’s Canada Recovery Sickness Benefit.The.