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The Nova Scotia Department of Labour, Skills and Immigration has lifted a work stoppage order on a Halifax Walmart bakery following the death of a 19-year-old employee.

The order was issued after Gursimran Kaur’s body was found in a large commercial oven at the store’s bakery on October 19 during her shift. His mother, who also worked at the store, discovered the body.

“The stop work order was lifted when compliance was confirmed, allowing bakery operations to safely resume if Walmart decides to do so,” the ministry said in an email to CBC News on October 29.

The Mumford Road site remains closed. In a letter to employees on Oct. 27 and obtained by CBC News, Walmart says the store is closed for at least another week and the company is unsure when it will reopen.

Labor investigators have conducted nine inspections at the Walmart on Mumford Road over the past five years, the Canadian Press reported last week.

No enforcement action was taken following these inspections and no administrative orders or sanctions were issued.

Halifax Regional Police have not released any new updates this week on their ongoing investigation into Kaur’s cause of death.

The family’s suffering is “unimaginable”

Kaur came to Canada about two years ago from India, said Balbir Singh, secretary of the Maritime Sikh Society.

She was “a beautiful young girl who came to Canada with big dreams,” says an online fundraising page organized by the society.

Kaur’s mother is still in shock but has authorized the release of information about her daughter for the GoFundMe page, the company said.

The fundraising campaign says the mother became frantic after her daughter did not answer her phone during the Saturday night shift. The mother, whose name has not been released, eventually opened the store’s bakery oven and found her daughter’s burned body, it says.

The fundraiser, which has raised nearly $200,000, is seeking donations to bring Kaur’s father and brother from the Punjab region of India to Nova Scotia for the funeral.

“The suffering of this family is unimaginable and indescribable. They need your support to get through this horrible time,” we can read.