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Ontario council adopts ordinance requiring personal safety devices for hotel housekeepers
Summary
The council voted 5-0 to adopt an ordinance requiring hotels to provide personal safety devices to housekeepers at no charge and to designate staff to respond to alerts; worker advocates said the city proposal falls short of a worker-drafted initiative and urged stronger anti-retaliation and training protections.
The Ontario City Council voted 5-0 to adopt an ordinance requiring hotels to provide personal safety devices to on-site hotel employees, primarily housekeepers, at no cost and to designate on-duty managers or security personnel as responsible for responding to device alerts.
City Manager (unnamed) told the council the ordinance “designate[s] or require[s] that a personal safety device be afforded to every 1 of the hotel employees at no charge” and described provisions allowing workers certain workplace accommodations during cleaning. The measure was presented as a narrow, enforceable set of safety practices…
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