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The struggle of part-time staff moving from one task to another for a living can also be a challenge for everyone as COVID-19 instances increase.
The stage was recently highlighted in Brandon, where an organization of instances that added staff at the Maple Leaf Foods Inc. plant made national headlines. While the number of cases in the western city of Manitoba is slowing, Brandon has an upward rate consistent with the COVID-19 rate of capita than Alberta’s hot spots, and nearly 20 times more cases consistent with a population of 100,000 than Winnipeg.
This has something to do with a number of part-time painters who have to paint in more than one place for a living, says a Brandon resident who is experiencing his difficulties.
“Many other people are worried. They still don’t have a selection to move on to paintings and are afraid to catch it,” said Wadood Myireh, who paints full-time in the service sector.
“They get conflicting messages from other corporations; the company has another protocol,” regarding COVID-19, Wadood Myireh said. (Tim Smith / Brandon’s Sun)
Several fitness notices related to the imaginable exposure to COVID-19 in Brandon were issued this month in places such as 7-Eleven, Sobeys and Tim Hortons.
“I know other people who paint elsewhere, so they can be exposed to more places and have the ability (to interact with) more people,” Myireh said Tuesday.
These staff are immigrants and others of color, said the man who emigrated to Canada from Pakistan and has lived in Brandon for seven years. “Most of them come from abroad, they are the ones who perform various tasks.”
During the pandemic, they also face a maze of shifts and regulations in other workplaces.
“They get conflicting messages from other corporations; the company has another protocol,” Myireh said in relation to COVID-19.
Some employers tell staff to take the COVID-19 check and return with evidence of a negative result. But when they retire to do so, they are sent back to the control sites because they have no symptoms and meet the verification criteria, he said.
On Monday, Manitoba’s provincial public fitness officer told employers to avoid doing that.
“Because of our increased number of controls, we need e-books (controls) for maximum symptomatic people, so don’t insist that asymptomatic workers provide the results of the controls,” Dr. Brent Roussin said. Employers are requested to send workers for verification only if they have symptoms or if the checks have been done through public health.
Meanwhile, not being able to be two meters away from each other and with customers is stressful and distressing for workers, Myireh said. “That’s why other people are worried.”
They are also concerned about spreading the virus knowing they are inflamed but show no symptoms, Myireh said.
This is something that all the inhabitants of Manitoba are involved in, advocates of the fight against poverty and public fitness say.
Many low-paid part-time employees are driven by the need for employment, which puts them to themselves, their families and workplaces at risk of getting COVID-19, said Molly McCracken, Manitoba’s director of the Canadian Center for Policy Alternatives.
“COVID exposes inequalities of elegance in the economy,” McCracken said.
“These staff are more likely to be female and race,” she said. “This can very well lead to higher rates of viruses and more deaths in low- and middle-income communities.”