NDP calls for paid sick leave benefits as provinces reopen amid coronavirus Sattler said with the risking case numbers “it is all to clear how dangerous it is when workers must lose their pay to stay home when they are sick.”The new bill would make the leave flexible for individual workers’ health care needs, and would expand upon the three unpaid sick days already guaranteed under the Employment Standards Act.Sattler also noted that the paid sick days would apply to all workers, including those classified as part-time as long as they had completed at least one week of work.Decent Work and Health Network estimates least 60 per cent of all workers in Ontario do not have paid sick days, which Sattler said is especially the case if they have.