The Canadian Union of Public Employees has identified a problem with the provincial government’s decision to limit workers at long-term care facilities to working at only one facility. While this helps to make these facilities safer from COVID-19, it could also have a devastating impact on workers who depend on shifts at multiple facilities to help pay the bills. CUPE says relief workers have no guaranteed hours and must often work at multiple facilities. Part-time workers usually also hold a relief position to make up full-time hours. Local 5430 president Sandra Seitz says, “The government has to act right now so that our front-line heroes in health care aren’t being left behind.” While the Saskatchewan Health Authority is honouring the guaranteed hours of full-time and part-time workers, the union says it has made no such guarantees for its relief employees.