Dear Editor:
No doubt, we’ve all heard the pleas of business owners to obtain new employees or even to get their former employees to return to work. The owners are met with several obstacles, including CERB and extended unemployment benefits.
Maybe we should look at this situation from a different perspective. The employees did not enact the legislation to get extended “leaves of absence” – Ottawa did this for their benefit and they are simply taking advantage of it; however, let’s give these potential employees a little credit. They are not required to work if they desire not to.
And there is the distinct possibility that with only 60% of the population fully vaccinated and the Delta variant cases rising every day, these workers are refusing to return to work for their health and that of their families.
Jim McClure,
Crieff