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posted by janrinok on Tuesday March 27 2018, @12:33AM   Printer-friendly
from the Oooh-La-La! dept.

An apparently obnoxious restaurant employee in Vancouver BC has filed a human rights complaint claiming that he has been discriminated against because he's "too French." CBC News reports that Guillaume Rey has filed a complaint at the B.C. Human Rights Tribunal against Milestones Restaurant and its parent company, Cara Operations, where he worked as a waiter from October 2015 to August 2016. Rey says his co-workers misinterpreted his "direct, honest and professional" French personality.

Although Rey was reportedly well-liked by customers, on several occasions he was disciplined and warned about how he treated his colleagues, which the restaurant described as "combative and aggressive." Rey was fired for violating the company's Respect in the Workplace policy.

Rey might want to look closely at another recent decision, in which the Human Rights Tribunal decided that a local "'Brash, loud and obnoxious gay male' doesn't have right to (send) rude emails" to his local city council.


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  • (Score: 2) by tangomargarine on Tuesday March 27 2018, @03:18PM

    by tangomargarine (667) on Tuesday March 27 2018, @03:18PM (#659000)

    Rey might want to look closely at another recent decision, in which the Human Rights Tribunal decided that a local "'Brash, loud and obnoxious gay male' doesn't have right to (send) rude emails" to his local city council.

    Hmm. Well I'm sure they didn't outright say it was *because* he's gay...

    Hazen Colbert has called his city's mayor an "old whore," congratulated a councillor on her breast implants

    Rude but nothing to violate his rights over...

    ...and threatened to release drunken photos of another if they didn't vote a certain way.

    Aaaaand now they can charge him with blackmail. D'oh!

    The offense of blackmail is created by 18 U.S.C. ยง 873 which provides:

    "Whoever, under a threat of informing, or as a consideration for not informing, against any violation of any law of the United States, demands or receives any money or other valuable thing, shall be fined under this title or imprisoned not more than one year, or both."[38]

    --
    "Is that really true?" "I just spent the last hour telling you to think for yourself! Didn't you hear anything I said?"
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