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NDP reacts to workplace fatalities

There have been two workplace deaths Ï㽶ÊÓƵֱ²¥” one in Lumby log yard and the other in Kelowna.
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An investigation continues into the death of an employee at Tolko's Kelowna mill.

B.C.'s official opposition says measures must be taken to reduce workplace deaths in the province.

There have been two workplace deaths in the past week Ï㽶ÊÓƵֱ²¥” one at a and the other at

Ï㽶ÊÓƵֱ²¥œWe hope that the investigations into their deaths will find out what happened so that we can help prevent incidents like these from happening in the future," said Shane Simpson, the NDP's labour critic.

Ï㽶ÊÓƵֱ²¥œNew Democrats will monitor the investigations very carefully. There are new laws designed to ensure that employers are held accountable if they are found to be negligent. If that is the case in either of these tragedies, we want to make sure that those laws are applied."

 

 



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