About one in two full- time, part-time, and self-employed workers Before the onset of the pandemic, how many say they would likely have gone into work workers in Canada were likely to go into on a day when they woke up feeling sick, work despite feeling sick? as do the same proportion of those who The Survey on Employment and Skills asked are and those who are not members of a Canadians who were e. [...] 2 Access to paid sick days Most of those who would not > Those who are employed on a permanent go into work if they felt sick say basis (62%) are much more likely to say they would still have been paid they would still get paid if they stayed home from work when sick, compared to for work that day. [...] a permanent basis (62%) are While the likelihood of going into work much more likely to say they sick does not differ dramatically between would still get paid if they stayed those who are and who are not more likely home from work when sick, to be advantaged in the workplace, the likelihood of being paid while staying home compared to those employed on sick definitely does (see Appendix Table 1). [...] > Those with jobs related to sales or Notably, the types of workers who are more services (55%) or to trades, transportation likely to say that they would go into work or manual labour (54%), compared to sick because otherwise they wouldn’t get those with office or clerical jobs (38%) and paid are similar to the types of workers professionals and executives (29%). [...] For instance, (51%) are more likely than men (41%) to say the proportion that says they would go that they would go into work because other into work sick because they had so much people depended on them to be there to do work to do and didn’t want to fall behind, their job, and they didn’t want to let them is much higher among those with a college down.
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