Worker type: Care Workers

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Care Workers’ Rights During #COVID19: Civic Holiday in Ontario

Is the first Monday in August a PUBLIC holiday in Ontario? No, the first Monday in August is a CIVIC Holiday in Ontario. This means that under the Employment Standards Act, Ontario employers are NOT required to offer paid vacation on a Civic Holiday. Read below for more information!

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✊ JOIN our friends at the Fight for $15 & Fairness on August 11th for a cross-country phone ZAP where we will ALL call Prime Minister Trudeau, cabinet ministers, and MPs to demand fairness at work and #incomeforall! Sign up here: https://www.15andfairness.org/phone_zap_aug11_2020

If you are a Care Worker with questions about your rights, call, text or WhatsApp the Caregivers’ Action Centre at (647) 782-6633. 📞📞

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Care Workers’ Rights During #COVID19: Biometrics

If I’m applying for temporary residence in Canada, do I have to give my biometrics? No! Read more below!

This new policy applies to you if you are applying for:  
– an extension of a work permit, or a new work permit
– an extension of a study permit, or a new study permit
– a visitor visa, or a visitor record to allow you to stay in Canada as a temporary resident
– restoration (extension) of temporary resident status, or a temporary resident permit

❗ IMPORTANT INFORMATION❗️
❌ DO NOT pay the biometric fee, even if IRCC’s online system asks you to pay it when you submit your application. 
✔️ If you do pay the biometric fee and you receive a biometric instruction letter, you DO NOT have to give your biometrics if you’re in Canada and applying for temporary residence. A refund will be given to you later. 

👀 Read here for more information: https://www.canada.ca/…/biometrics-exemption-temporary…

If you are a Care Worker with questions about your rights, call, text or Whatsapp the Caregivers’ Action Centre at (647) 782-6633!

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Care Workers’ Rights During #COVID19: Public Holiday Pay

Do I get public holiday pay on Canada Day? Yes! Read more below!

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✊ JOIN US on Saturday, July 4th at 3pm for an in-person #StatusForAll rally outside Minister Immigration Mendocino’s office! Facebook event: https://www.facebook.com/events/586168448996016/

If you are a Care Worker with questions about your rights, call, text or WhatsApp the Caregivers’ Action Centre at (647) 782-6633. 📞📞

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Migrant Care Workers call for FULL Immigration Status for ALL!

Since the 1800s, racialized women have been coming to Canada to raise children and take care of the sick and elderly. Despite being the backbone of the economy, Care Workers are treated like we are temporary! COVID-19 has shown that without the essential work of Care Workers, Canadian society does not function. Care Workers are humans too, we deserve respect and dignity!

We demand FULL & PERMANENT immigration status for ALL! STATUS FOR ALL means: 

  1. Permanent Resident status NOW for everyone who has entered into Canada.
  2. Permanent Resident status ON ARRIVAL with our families.
  3. ELIMINATE language, education and service requirements.
  4. ELIMINATE the medical inadmissibility rules.
  5. OPEN WORK PERMITS while applications for permanent residence are in process.
  6. No more detentions and deportations. WE ARE HERE TO STAY! 

Status for All is NOT the same as a “pathway to permanent residency”. Care Workers already have a pathway to permanent immigration status, but because of unfair English language and education requirements, many of us cannot apply for it and will lose our immigration status! We need FULL immigration Status for All NOW!

Care Workers are joining with farmworkers, refugees, migrant sex workers, international students, undocumented people and all migrants to call for Status for All. At least 1 in 23 people in Canada (over 1.6 million) are non permanent residents. We are building a migrant justice movement. Together, we are stronger!

While fighting for Status For All, we also demand for: 

  • Healthcare for all;
  • Family unity;
  • Full labour rights and protections for all, including open work permits without any employer, hours of work or industry restrictions
  • Equal access without restriction, fees or fear to Employment Insurance, pensions, social assistance, workers’ compensation, emergency income supports, settlement services and all other social services and education at all levels.
  • End to racism, xenophobia and discrimination

Our communities cannot wait! Click here to sign our petition for landed status now!

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Care Workers’ Rights During #COVID19: CERB

Care Workers, receiving CERB will not affect your immigration application or immigration status. Read below for more information!

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✊ JOIN US on Sunday, May 3rd at 1pm for our first online social, Care Workers Connect during COVID-19, to learn more about how to make your voices heard!

If you are a Care Worker with questions about your rights, call, text or WhatsApp the Caregivers’ Action Centre at (647) 782-6633. 📞📞