The Finest Western in Valemount has actually been bought to pay a former housekeeper nearly $4,500 by the B.C. Human Rights Tribunal.
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The B.C. Human Rights Tribunal has actually bought The very best Western in Valemount to pay a former housekeeper nearly $4,500 after finding the woman’s pregnancy was a explanation in the hotel’s decision to lay her off.
Alicia Hill started job at the hotel regard Nov. 14, 2014 and was trained by supervisor Tracey Steenman to clean bathrooms, the decision says. A week later, Hill found she was pregnant. The smell of the cleansing chemicals nauseated her, especially in confined spaces, so she took the matter up along with Steenman, that asked her to get hold of a doctor’s note. In a note dated Dec. 9, a physician declared Hill unfit to job until Jan. 5.
When Hill sent Steenman a copy of the note by text message regard Dec. 12, Steenman responded that her boss had determined to lay Hill off.
“K yet we have. To position csuse (sic) of being pregnant,” Steenman wrote in a text message that was entered in to evidence at the hearing.
Hill said she had hoped to keep on at the hotel carrying out housekeeping job that didn’t include chemicals, such as making beds and carrying out laundry. The complying with February, she asked Steenman concerning using for a task the hotel had posted looking for bed strippers, and was told the hotel had no such opening.
Steenman said she did not return Hill to job as a result of her high-risk pregnancy. She testified that she believed Hill was just capable of carrying out light duties and that all the remaining housekeeping tasks were not considered light duties.
When Hill received her Tape-record of Employment, it specified she had quit.
“I discover that the ROE inaccurately reports exactly how Ms. Hill’s employment ended,” tribunal member Diana Juricevic wrote in her decision, released Tuesday. “In my view, contemporaneous text messages in between herself and Ms. Steenman clearly reveal that she was laid off.”
Juricevic discovered the hotel and Steenman discriminated versus Hill regard the basis of sex, and bought them to pay Hill $1,960 for lost wages and $2,500 for injury for dignity, sensations and self-respect.
