Toronto sets January date for city workers to return to the office, amid rising COVID-19 cases, Omicron uncertainty
Toronto looks to get back to normal in January, following the cancellation of the city’s summer long-planned Pride parade, its first ever without trans community representatives, and the removal of Pride flags from city buildings.
Toronto looks to get back to normal in January, following the cancellation of the city’s summer long-planned Pride parade, its first ever without trans community representatives, and the removal of Pride flags from city buildings.
An unknown number of workers at city hall will be returning to their offices early next month to get back to work, a move that has been put off for months by the COVID-19 pandemic. The move follows months and even years of delays, as the city has sought to put off workers leaving until the virus had passed.
The city will now seek to have the last worker in their office back on the job by the end of January, after which there will be a series of smaller, targeted, targeted public sector events, aimed at getting people back to work and getting those who have stayed by the phone and email.
But before that happens, there is a number of changes and cancellations happening across Toronto, including a new look for its planned Pride parade, and the removal of Pride flags from city buildings.
Those changes are being announced the day after the announcement that Toronto now has the highest number of COVID-19 cases in the country outside of New York City.
“We have been working through a number of scenarios, different options for how we could move forward that would ensure we were putting people back to work in the best way for them in a safe environment,” said TTC CEO Andy Byford.
“This is a matter of making sure we continue to do that, and doing it in a very sensitive and calibrated way.”
As part of a new plan, which will be presented to city council sometime after the next month, there will be a new look for the Pride parade.
“Because the parade is so much about our shared culture, we decided that for now, instead of having the traditional floats we had last year