The Provincial Government is defending its changes to Grant’s Law, but the NDP says the Liberals are risking worker safety to placate the business community.
Grant’s Law required pre-payment at gas pumps after the death of gas station attendant Grant de Patie while trying to stop a late night gas and dash. It also required double staffing or physical barriers overnight, but Labour Minister Margaret MacDiarmid says small business owners complained, “If they’re forced to put in a barrier that may cost upward of 50-thousand or more dollars a year, their business is going to fold.”
But NDP critic Raj Chouhan says this is a bad move, “She’s more concerned about the business’s bottom line rather than the safety of the worker working alone.”
The Government says violent incidents in overnight workplaces has dropped by half since 2007.
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