Employee Safety: Canada and Warner

employee safety: Warner says not all the services that are usually offered to the public will be available in-person and they'll continue to ask people to do things online where possible, according to CTV. All of the 318 of Service Canada Centres were closed on March 26 by Minister of Social Development Ahmed Hussen, citing safety issues for staff members and the need to follow public health advice due to COVID-19. Crystal Warner, national executive vice-president of the Canada Employment and Immigration Union, confirmed to CTV News the re-opening would start this week, with a goal of having five offices per province. Prior to the shutdown, Warner says the situation at Service Canada Centres was so bad that employee safety was at risk, leading to employees refusing to work. Incidents of employees being spat on, having items thrown at them, and having employees call the police to break up fist fights, had happened in March according to Warner. Warner noted that as unemployment levels rose at the start of the pandemic, people coming into the office for services were increasingly agitated and hostile towards Service Canada employees. (www.immigrantscanada.com). As reported in the news.