Allan Manson

The complainant, a store manager at a jewellery store, was terminated shortly after informing her employer that she was pregnant and could no longer work twelve-hour shifts.

The employer demoted her to a sales associate position and subsequently terminated her employment.

The Board of Inquiry found that the demotion was a sham and that the complainant was terminated because of her pregnancy, with no effort made to accommodate her.

The respondents were ordered to pay $16,334.43 in compensation for lost wages, lost commissions, lost maternity benefits, general damages for humiliation, and interest.

The complainant, an Ojibway man, alleged that a hotel discriminated against him based on his race and ancestry by demanding a $100 deposit and assigning him to an inferior room.

The Board of Inquiry found that the deposit claim was abandoned, but the room assignment constituted discrimination.

Relying on circumstantial evidence, including statistical data of room assignments and testimony from a police officer about 'native rooms', the Board concluded that the hotel had a practice of steering native customers to inferior rooms.

The corporate respondent was ordered to pay $2,500 in compensatory damages for the injury to the complainant's dignity.