{"id":71826,"date":"2021-04-22T09:16:52","date_gmt":"2021-04-22T13:16:52","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/brocku.ca\/brock-news\/?p=71826"},"modified":"2024-09-01T09:54:56","modified_gmt":"2024-09-01T13:54:56","slug":"braley-rattai-pandemic-era-retail-no-shoes-no-shirt-no-mask-no-service","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/brocku.ca\/brock-news\/2021\/04\/braley-rattai-pandemic-era-retail-no-shoes-no-shirt-no-mask-no-service\/","title":{"rendered":"BRALEY-RATTAI: Pandemic-era retail: No shoes, no shirt, no mask \u2014 no service?"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Alison Braley-Rattai, Assistant Professor of Labour Studies at Brock University, had a piece recently published in<em> <a href=\"https:\/\/theconversation.com\/pandemic-era-retail-no-shoes-no-shirt-no-mask-no-service-158502?utm_medium=email&amp;utm_campaign=Latest%20from%20The%20Conversation%20for%20April%2022%202021&amp;utm_content=Latest%20from%20The%20Conversation%20for%20April%2022%202021+CID_8a2d2d5bd3a32921430328c1cb30a123&amp;utm_source=campaign_monitor_ca&amp;utm_term=Pandemic-era%20retail%20No%20shoes%20no%20shirt%20no%20mask%20%20no%20service\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">The Conversation<\/a><\/em> about the application of human rights law to mask wearing in the retail sector.<\/p>\n<p>She writes:<\/p>\n<p><em>\u201cMasking is currently required to access retail stores across Canada amid the COVID-19 pandemic. Presently, every province has regulations in place that require customers to wear masks before entering stores to shop.<\/em><\/p>\n<p><em>\u00a0<\/em><em>All such regulations include exemptions for those unable to mask owing to a disability. However,\u00a0not all store masking policies include these exemptions.\u00a0<\/em><\/p>\n<p><em>\u00a0<\/em><em>The inability to mask for medical reasons raises important questions about the application of well-established principles of human rights law to the retail sector.\u201d<\/em><\/p>\n<p>Continue reading the full article <a href=\"https:\/\/theconversation.com\/pandemic-era-retail-no-shoes-no-shirt-no-mask-no-service-158502?utm_medium=email&amp;utm_campaign=Latest%20from%20The%20Conversation%20for%20April%2022%202021&amp;utm_content=Latest%20from%20The%20Conversation%20for%20April%2022%202021+CID_8a2d2d5bd3a32921430328c1cb30a123&amp;utm_source=campaign_monitor_ca&amp;utm_term=Pandemic-era%20retail%20No%20shoes%20no%20shirt%20no%20mask%20%20no%20service\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">here<\/a>.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Alison Braley-Rattai, Assistant Professor of Labour Studies at Brock University, had a piece recently published in The Conversation about the application of human rights law to mask wearing in the retail sector.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":45641,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":[],"categories":[7,6,38],"tags":[7114,110,522,5512],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/brocku.ca\/brock-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/71826"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/brocku.ca\/brock-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/brocku.ca\/brock-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/brocku.ca\/brock-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/brocku.ca\/brock-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=71826"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/brocku.ca\/brock-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/71826\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":71827,"href":"https:\/\/brocku.ca\/brock-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/71826\/revisions\/71827"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/brocku.ca\/brock-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/45641"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/brocku.ca\/brock-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=71826"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/brocku.ca\/brock-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=71826"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/brocku.ca\/brock-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=71826"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}