Canadian healthcare staff decry ‘cruel hoax’ after scam email promises paid day off
Key takeaways
- Prefer the Guardian on GoogleFor years, healthcare staff in the Canadian province of Newfoundland and Labrador have felt overworked and under-appreciated.
- So when the email titled “June Holiday” arrived in thousands of inboxes, they felt a moment of overdue joy.
- The message thanked them for their professionalism and their work ethic, citing hundreds of hours of recent mandatory overtime to implement a new digital platform called CorCare.
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Staff received ‘phishing’ test email as turnover, burnout and thinning resources push healthcare workers to a breaking point. Photograph: Lourdes Balduque/Getty Images View image in fullscreen Staff received ‘phishing’ test email as turnover, burnout and thinning resources push healthcare workers to a breaking point. Photograph: Lourdes Balduque/Getty Images Canada Canadian healthcare staff decry ‘cruel hoax’ after scam email promises paid day off Unions condemn ‘insensitive’ internal cybersecurity test sent to healthcare workers in Newfoundland and Labrador
Prefer the Guardian on GoogleFor years, healthcare staff in the Canadian province of Newfoundland and Labrador have felt overworked and under-appreciated. Turnover, burnout and thinning resources were pushing workers in the sector to a breaking point.
So when the email titled “June Holiday” arrived in thousands of inboxes, they felt a moment of overdue joy.