Justin Trudeau News – A housekeeper files human rights complaint on behalf of 89 laid-off workers who oppose a COVID-19 quarantine hotel in Richmond
Author of the article:
A housekeeper who fired from the Pacific Gateway hotel, a federal quarantine site COVID-19 in Richmond, filed a human rights complaint against the hotel.
Kiranjit Dhillon, a South Asian who had worked at the hotel for 17 years before being fired, filed a complaint Thursday with the B. C. Human Rights Court on his behalf and in 89 other women, alleging sexual and racial discrimination, according to Unite Here Local 40Array, which provided Postmedia with a copy of the complaint.
Women allege that during the COVID-19 pandemic, layoffs at the hotel had a mixed effect on women of color, while men’s jobs were more likely to be protected.
The 40-year-old federal hotel fired 142 employees for the COVID-19 pandemic. Of the licensees, 90 are women and most are other people of color, according to Unite Here Local 40.
The Pacific Gateway took over through the federal government for use as a quarantine site last year after the COVID-19 pandemic outbreak.
The union says the government moved workers from licensed hotels, basically housewives, when they subcontracted them to the Red Cross.
“What my hotel did to me and my colleagues is racist and sexist. Pacific Gateway took advantage of the pandemic to get rid of long-term staff, many of us women immigrating to Canada. We have made this hotel a success. I raised my young people in this job. Is this what our Prime Minister Justin Trudeau calls a feminist renaissance?Dhillon said.
The union says they are calling for the return of all members of the organization to their pacific gateway jobs, reimbursement of lost wages and violation of dignity, and an order opposing the hotel to end discrimination.
[email protected]
© 2020 FINTECH ZOOM – WORLD FINANCES
Sign in to your account below
Complete the bureaucracy to register
Enter your username or email address to reset your password.