Ontario teens fired after skipping work for religious holiday awarded $26,000
Human Rights Tribunal ruled vegetable grower Country Herbs discriminated against Mennonites on basis of creed over Himmelfahrt holiday request
A Mennonite church in Ontario. Two teens have won a discrimination suit against a vegetable company.
By: Michelle McQuigge The Canadian Press
Published on Thu Aug 20 2015
A pair of Ontario teenagers will soon be collecting thousands of dollars after their employer fired them for observing a religious holiday.
The province’s Human Rights Tribunal ruled that vegetable grower Country Herbs discriminated against the young siblings on the basis of their creed.
The tribunal heard and accepted evidence that the teens, identified only by their initials, provided several weeks of notice that they planned to take the day off to celebrate a holiday that was important to their Christian Mennonite faith.
Only the 16-year-old sister H.T. was scheduled to work that day, but both she and her 14-year-old brother J.T. were fired immediately after she failed to report to work.
http://www.thestar.com/news/canada/2015/08/20/ontario-teens-fired-after-skipping-work-for-religious-holiday-awarded-26000.html
The decision: http://www.canlii.org/en/on/onhrt/doc/2015/2015hrto1067/2015hrto1067.html?autocompleteStr=country%20herbs&autocompletePos=3
http://www.germanwordsexplained.com/blog/bank-holidays/christi-himmelfahrt/