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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.
(Score: 1, Insightful) by Anonymous Coward on Tuesday March 27 2018, @09:01PM (1 child)
IANAL, but we go through this every year at my employer. We take training to cover their legal bases. Never heard it called a protected human right, but they do talk about protected categories
1 - Being French is a protected category. "You're fired, Frenchy!" might give him something to work with. Not much, but something.
2 - Being an ass to you co-workers is not protected. "You're fired, asshole!" leaves him nothing to work with.
It seems that we have a case of (2) trying to claim (1) . . . nothing to see here
(Score: 0) by Anonymous Coward on Saturday March 31 2018, @03:56AM
Well, he's also saying it's French to be an asshole, in effect calling his fellow countrymen all assholes. There may be a country in the world that'd charge him with hate speech based on that, at least based on the letter of the law.