A Toronto-based health-care company that’s been the subject of a number of employee complaints of late or non-payment has received millions in contracts from the provincial and regional governments.
Abira Healthcare — a designated physiotherapy service provider approved and funded by Ontario’s Ministry of Health — is reportedly consistently delayed in paying some therapists hired to work in long-term care homes, a CBC Toronto investigation has found. Some complaints date back almost five years.
To provide its services, Abira — which is owned by Dani Diena and also operates as a numbered company: 2275518 Ontario Inc. — hires independent contractors throughout southwestern Ontario to carry out physiotherapy and other rehabilitation at care homes and clinics across the province. It also operates a physiotherapy clinic in north Toronto.
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