The kicker is that health workers who must isolate for 14 days have to use their allocated sick days, said UNA VP @CamWesthead. So now staff are running through their sick bank when they have to self isolate.

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“We’ve been calling on AHS to reinstate a pandemic self-isolation pay. They’ve since taken that away when the state of emergency was over… so now staff are running through their sick bank when they have to self isolate.” - @CamWesthead.

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Even if the COVID-19 case they may have been exposed to was a work colleague, Alberta nurses must use their own sick days to isolate for 14 days. For casual staff, that means they don’t get paid for those two weeks.

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“I would say even before COVID hit, people were working short staffed and morale was low. We’ve seen the way physicians are being treated by the government… and we knew we were in for the same treatment.” - @CamWesthead

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“There’s a real sense that health-care workers feel disposable. On one hand, the government calls us heroes, then another day they make an announcement to lay off 11,000 of us.” - @CamWesthead

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