Food service workers, training and qualifications
 78. (1) Every licensee of a long-term care home shall ensure that food service workers hired on or after July 1, 2010, other than cooks to whom section 76 applies, (a) have successfully completed or are enrolled in a Food Service Worker program at a college established under the Ontario Colleges of Applied Arts and Technology Act, 2002
or a Food Service Worker program provided by a registered private career college and approved by the Superintendent of Private Career Colleges under the Private Career Colleges Act, 2005; (b) have successfully completed an apprenticeship program in the trade of Cook, Institutional Cook or Assistant Cook under the Apprenticeship and Certification Act, 1998, the Ontario College of Trades and Apprenticeship Act, 2009, or the Building Opportunities in the Skilled Trades Act, 2021; or (c) have entered into a registered training agreement in the trade of Cook, Institutional Cook or Assistant Cook under the Apprenticeship and Certification Act, 1998, the Ontario College of Trades and Apprenticeship Act, 2009
or the Building Opportunities in the Skilled Trades Act, 2021. O. Reg. 246/13, s. 7; O. Reg. 897/21, s. 2 (1). (2) The licensee shall cease to employ as a food service worker a person who was required to be enrolled in a program described in subsection (1) if, (a) in the case of a program referred to in clause (1) (a), the person ceases to be enrolled in the program or fails to successfully complete the program within three years of being hired; or (b) in the case of a program referred to in clause (1) (c), the registration of the person’s training agreement is cancelled, suspended or revoked, or the person fails to receive a statement of successful completion of a program under the Apprenticeship and Certification Act, 1998, a certificate of successful completion of a program under the Ontario College of Trades and Apprenticeship Act, 2009 or a certificate of apprenticeship under the Building Opportunities in the Skilled Trades Act, 2021, as the case may be, (i) within three years of being hired, in the case of an apprenticeship program in the trade of Assistant Cook, or (ii) within five years of being hired, in the case of an apprenticeship program in the trade of Cook or Institutional Cook. O. Reg. 246/13, s. 7; O. Reg. 897/21, s. 2 (2). (3) The licensee shall ensure that food service workers who were employed at the home before July 1, 2010, and who do not have the qualifications required under subsection (1), complete a food handler training program on or before October 1, 2010, unless they meet the requirements under subsection (1) sooner. O. Reg. 246/13, s. 7. (4) Despite subsection (1), a person who was working or employed as a food service worker in a long-term care home immediately before July 1, 2010 may be hired as a food service worker in a different home if he or she, (a) worked or was employed as a food service worker in a long-term care home, (i) on a full-time basis for at least three years during the five years immediately before being employed in the different home, or (ii) on a part-time basis for the equivalent of at least three full-time years during the seven years immediately before being employed in the different home; and (b) completed a food handler training program on or before October 1, 2010, unless he or she met the requirements under subsection (1) before then. O. Reg. 246/13, s. 7. (5) Subsection (1) does not apply with respect to, (a) students hired on a seasonal or part-time basis, who have successfully completed a food handler training program; (b) persons who meet the qualifications in subsection 75 (2) or 76 (2) or who are exempt from meeting those qualifications as they meet the requirements under subsection 75 (2.1) or 76 (4); or (c) persons who have a post-secondary diploma in food and nutrition management or a post-secondary degree in food and nutrition. O. Reg. 246/13, s. 7. (6) In this section, “food handler training program” means the food handler training program offered or approved by the board of health for the public health unit in which the long-term care home is located. O. Reg. 246/13, s. 7. Medical Services