{"id":229143,"date":"2021-10-15T17:05:24","date_gmt":"2021-10-15T21:05:24","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/policyoptions.irpp.org\/podcast\/overhauling-canadas-sickness-and-caregiving-leave-regime-2\/"},"modified":"2025-08-26T01:05:05","modified_gmt":"2025-08-26T05:05:05","slug":"overhauling-canadas-sickness-and-caregiving-leave-regime-2","status":"publish","type":"podcast","link":"https:\/\/policyoptions.irpp.org\/fr\/podcast\/overhauling-canadas-sickness-and-caregiving-leave-regime-2\/","title":{"rendered":"Overhauling Canada&#8217;s sickness and caregiving leave regime"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><iframe width=\"100%\" height=\"166\" scrolling=\"no\" frameborder=\"no\" allow=\"autoplay\" src=\"https:\/\/w.soundcloud.com\/player\/?url=https%3A\/\/api.soundcloud.com\/tracks\/1142402182&#038;color=%23ff5500&#038;auto_play=false&#038;hide_related=false&#038;show_comments=true&#038;show_user=true&#038;show_reposts=false&#038;show_teaser=true\"><\/iframe><\/p>\n<div style=\"font-size: 10px; color: #cccccc;line-break: anywhere;word-break: normal;overflow: hidden;white-space: nowrap;text-overflow: ellipsis; font-family: Interstate,Lucida Grande,Lucida Sans Unicode,Lucida Sans,Garuda,Verdana,Tahoma,sans-serif;font-weight: 100;\"><a href=\"https:\/\/soundcloud.com\/irpp\" title=\"Policy Options Podcast\" target=\"_blank\" style=\"color: #cccccc; text-decoration: none;\" rel=\"noopener\">Policy Options Podcast<\/a> \u00b7 <a href=\"https:\/\/soundcloud.com\/irpp\/po-podcast-133-overhauling-canadas-sickness-and-caregiving-leave-regime\" title=\"PO Podcast 133 - Overhauling Canada&#x27;s sickness and caregiving leave regime\" target=\"_blank\" style=\"color: #cccccc; text-decoration: none;\" rel=\"noopener\">PO Podcast 133 &#8211; Overhauling Canada&#x27;s sickness and caregiving leave regime<\/a><\/div>\n<p>Over the course of the pandemic, largely due to the increase in cases due to workplace transmission, there were calls to improve the current regime of sickness and caregiving leaves across Canada. Over a year later, almost all of those calls have been ignored. Federal, provincial and territorial governments had to enact emergency measures to address these serious gaps in the system.<\/p>\n<p>Those programs will soon run out, and Canada will return to a mismatched system where the province you live in determines whether you have adequate access to paid sickness and caregiving leaves.<\/p>\n<p>It is crucial that we re-evaluate this regime and create one that is beneficial for all workers, because when workers decide that they cannot take time off due to illness, the resulting costs are borne by both individuals and society.<\/p>\n<p>In their new IRPP paper Eric Tucker and Leah Vosko examine international norms in comparable economies for sickness and caregiving leaves and what principles need to be included in a Canadian regime. They join the podcast to discuss the shortfalls in Canada\u2019s current system and what the ideal system would look like for workers.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Policy Options Podcast \u00b7 PO Podcast 133 &#8211; Overhauling Canada&#x27;s sickness and caregiving leave regime Over the course of the pandemic, largely due to the increase in cases due to workplace transmission, there were calls to improve the current regime of sickness and caregiving leaves across Canada. 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