Considering the massive deficits that the Ontario government is running due to lockdowns, mass testing and security theatre, paid sick days are a drop in the bucket. Massive unemployment = no tax revenue = huge deficits.

Does this actually effect normal people? I haven't had a job since I was like 20 that I couldn't occasionally call in a hangover day and stay home and get paid. Christ I once had my boss crashing at the corporate pad I was crashing at and we laughed at 9am joking we were both to drunk to go into work and offered to trade hookers instead.

As an aside if your high school guidance councilor didn't suggest a career with corporate sex pads and all night benders and you have a penis its proof your guidance councilors were as useless as mine. I never met someone who's guidance councilor suggested the fulfilling career of vacation hotspot photographer (have a buddy who does this for a living) or Strip Club manager (oddly not the happiest guy I know but in the top ten) or professional baccarat money launderer (got paid $30 dollar an hour for that gig and worked 12 hour days).

If you can't take a paid sick day its because you suck and listened to an idiot in high school so dumb they worked in a high school!

I would support it if it didn't get abused.

Used to work in a place with them and everyone would use up all their days right before the fiscal year reset.

I've barely missed a day in over a decade of work. Eat ok, stay active and you will be fine most of the time.