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Delivery drivers to get access to company washrooms under new legislation

Couriers, truck drivers, and people who deliver food, including those for online delivery platform companies such as SkipTheDishes, are often denied use of a washroom at businesses they serve
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A proposed new government bill will allow delivery workers access to company washrooms at businesses where they are delivering or picking up items.

Couriers, truck drivers, and people who deliver food, including those for online delivery platform companies such as SkipTheDishes, are often denied the use of a washroom at businesses they serve.

“This is something most people in Ontario take for granted but access to washrooms is a matter of common decency currently being denied to hundreds of thousands of workers in this province,” said Monte McNaughton, Minister of Labour. “Workers who deliver and pick up goods have been on the frontlines of the pandemic, ensuring that essential supplies continue to reach the people of Ontario. Providing these hardworking men and women with access to washrooms is a small change that will make a big difference, so they can do their jobs with the dignity and respect they deserve.”

At the start of the pandemic, the government opened additional rest stops for truck drivers to provide them with more places to safely stop.

The proposed new measures are not applicable to businesses that they are not delivering or picking up items from, or to private residences, but only apply to businesses where workers like truck drivers, couriers, or food delivery workers are picking up or delivering food or other items.


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