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Dollarama workers in Montreal say the retailer’s failure to provide protective equipment and enforce social distancing measures is putting them at risk of infection while the COVID-19 pandemic rages on.

Workers at Dollarama’s Montreal distribution centre aren’t being supplied with gloves, masks or soap, an employee who only identified himself as Jean-Jacques told reporters Monday on a conference call.

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What’s more, many stores lack glass partitions to protect cashiers, and staffers wishing to wear gloves or masks must buy their own equipment — a next-to-impossible task in times of shortage — said another employee who identified herself as Laura.

“The fear of catching the virus is constant,” Laura, a Montreal-area store worker, told reporters on a conference call Monday. “Sanitary measures are not being respected. People are afraid of infecting their families. These are very bad conditions that must be denounced.”