A cement plant in Metro Vancouver owes $160,000 to a former employee who was terminated in 2018 after refusing to take a drug test in order to return to work from a medical leave.
Tribunal documents show when McKenna contacted director Judy Treloar about an audition for Les Belles-soeurs and said in an email that she was Black, Treloar responded: “As much as I do not like saying this, the 15 women in this play are Quebecois women and the play is set in Montreal in 1965. A black woman would not be a neighbour or a sister in this play, however I would love to meet you and hear you read.” McKenna, a Black woman from Montreal whose parents lived in the neighbourhood where the play takes place, said she felt like the claim erased her existence.
December 15, 2020 - 7:00 AM The B.C. Human Rights Tribunal has quashed an appeal from a former Kamloops cafe owner who argued she should receive financial compensation from the barista who publicly made false claims about sexual harassment which ultimately led to the cafe s bankruptcy. In the Dec. 10 B.C. Human Rights Tribunal decision, former cafe owner Kim Cecile argued the Tribunal should reconsider an earlier ruling dismissing her claim for damages after she won the case against her former employee Jordynn Denness. Denness, a former barista at the PDK Cafe Cecile had owned, filed a B.C. Human Rights Tribunal complaint accusing a co-worker of sexual harassment and her former employer of failing to take the complaint seriously. She alleged Cecile knew the co-worker had previously sexually harassed others but did nothing about it and, therefore, put her in danger.