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Fun fundraising... 100 Mile House Special Olympics members held a fundraising and awareness event at Safeway on April 20-21 and appeared to have a good time meeting folks. Safeway manager Sean Watson, right, noted that they raised around $1,200 between the collection jar at the table and what the tills brought in.
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B.C. Liberal Labour Minister Margaret MacDiarmid is defending changes to the workplace regulation that required employers to provide a secure barrier for night-shift employers who work alone. Changes, which allow another option for operators of gas stations, convenience stores and other 24-hour businesses, took effect April 15. Rather than have a security barrier or more than one employee present, the regulation allows employers to put in video surveillance and a call button for employees. The original regulation is known as Grant’s law, after Maple Ridge gas station
employee Grant De Patie, who was run over and killed in 2005 when he tried to stop a driver from leaving without paying for gasoline. On April 16, MacDiarmid said the main provision of Grant’s law is mandatory prepayment for gasoline, and that remains. WorkSafeBC offered the new option after four years of consultation, she added. “With a small family-run business that may be open late at night, it’s often somebody from the family who is working there. If they’re forced to put in a barrier that may cost upward of $50,000 or more, the business is going to fold. “So they were listened to, and those other safety measures will be taken. WorkSafeBC is going to be auditing start-
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ing in May as I understand it.” NDP labour critic Raj Chouhan objected to the government’s claim there have been no more incidents since the regulation went into effect in 2005. Video surveillance does not provide immediate protection for people working alone at night, and there have been close calls, he said. “When somebody comes in and threatens a worker working alone at night, all they have now is some kind of a bell that they can press and it goes to somewhere. “In one incident where I have spoken with a person, this worker called, and it went to the manager’s cell phone. The cell phone was off in the middle of the night. There was no help.”
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