{"id":3134,"date":"2019-08-10T18:33:54","date_gmt":"2019-08-10T22:33:54","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/cafe.nfshost.com\/?p=3134"},"modified":"2019-08-10T18:33:55","modified_gmt":"2019-08-10T22:33:55","slug":"the-case-of-rhino-albino-and-other-b-c-human-rights-complaints-earls-albino-rhino-beer-had-been-on-offer-for-25-years-when-the-b-c-human-rights-tribunal-agreed-to-hear-a-complaint-by-a-woma","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/cafe.nfshost.com\/?p=3134","title":{"rendered":"The case of Rhino Albino and other B.C. human rights complaints Earl\u2019s Albino Rhino beer had been on offer for 25 years when the B.C. Human Rights Tribunal agreed to hear a complaint by a woman with albinism The label for Albino Rhino Ale made in 2012 for Earl’s Restaurant in Western Canada.\t Genna Buck Genna Buck\t August 8, 2019 5:17 PM EDT Filed under News Canada Comment Facebook Twitter Reddit Email More The B.C. Human Rights Tribunal has heard some offbeat complaints in its recent history, including a complaint about Albino Rhino beer and a waiter who said he was fired for being too French. Complaints have to be made within six months and many are resolved with mediation. They only proceed to a hearing if the tribunal rules that the complainant has a reasonable chance of succeeding. Here are some greatest hits: The Albino Rhino beer summit Ikponwosa Ero, the United Nations\u2019 independent expert on the enjoyment of human rights by persons with albinism, addresses a press conference at the end of her official visit to Malawi on April 29, 2016. AMOS GUMULIRA\/AFP\/Getty Images In 2012, Ikponwosa Ero, a woman with albinism, launched a human rights complaint against Earl\u2019s Restaurants in Vancouver because it had a beer called Albino Rhino on tap. The product had been on offer for 25 years at that point. The company claimed the rhyming name was intended to be \u201cwhimsical and fun\u201d and denote that the beer was \u201crare and special,\u201d like a white rhino, and was not intended to be discriminatory. People with albinism, which is genetic, are completely or partially missing the natural pigment in their skin, hair and eyes. They\u2019re susceptible to vision problems and skin cancer. In some cultures around the world, they face threats of violence, discrimination and even murder. Ero originally went through the advocacy organization where she worked to try to get Earl\u2019s to drop the name, but was unsuccessful. The B.C. Human Rights Tribunal agreed to hold a hearing, but instead the two parties managed to talk things out among themselves and Earl\u2019s voluntarily agreed to phase out the branding. The restaurant put out a statement in early 2013 stating, \u201cLike many Canadians we knew very little about the condition or the very real discrimination persons with albinism experience, both in Canada and around the world,\u201d and agreed, \u201cPersons with albinism are a stigmatized group that face prejudice and exclusion in many areas of Canadian society.\u201d Not rude, just French When Guillame Rey, a server at a Vancouver Milestones restaurant, was fired from his job for rudeness in August 2017, he claimed it wasn\u2019t his fault \u2014 he\u2019s French. The professional manner Rey\u2019s co-workers called \u201ccombative\u201d and his employer described as \u201crude and disrespectful\u201d was simply \u201cdirect and expressive\u201d and totally within the norms in his home country of France, Rey claimed. He said firing him amounted to discrimination on the basis of place of origin \u2014 a creative interpretation of section 13 of the province\u2019s Human Rights Code. Last year, the tribunal denied the restaurant\u2019s application to have the case dismissed. It\u2019s expected to proceed to a hearing. Is being called \u2018creepy\u2019 sexist and racist? Mokua Gichuru, a man whose use of the B.C. court system has been legally limited because of his long-established habit to sue over anything and everything, complained to the B.C. Human Rights Tribunal in 2016 because a Vancouver swing dancing club banned him for being \u201ccreepy.\u201d This amounts to \u201cblatant stereotyping\u201d of older, black men interacting with younger women, and is discrimination on the basis of age, sex and race, Gichuru claimed. Though the tribunal has declined to hear the case twice, it may yet proceed to a hearing, as Gichuru said that directors of the club banned him from events in retaliation for his threat to make a human rights complaint. \u2018Reorganizing her out of the workplace\u2019 Many recent cases have pertained to issues of disability accommodation in the workplace. For example, in July the tribunal heard the case of Norma Graham, a woman with a mental disability who had worked for the payroll department at B.C. Transit since 1991. In 2014, the organization made the switch to an open-concept office, and Graham complained that she was no longer able to concentrate on her work because of noisy conversations taking place near her desk. She asked to have her workstation moved and was denied. She also provided a medical note, but ended up taking a two-year medical leave soon after. When she returned to work, she was shuffled between various positions. Graham alleged that she no longer received the benefits she had at her old job. BC Transit eventually decided she would not be able to return to the payroll department. Graham ended up taking medical leave again. The tribunal ruled that B.C. Transit had done enough to accommodate Graham. Though the decision states that it was \u201cunfortunate\u201d that Graham felt her employer was not acting in good faith, and instead \u201creorganizing her out of the workplace,\u201d the complaint was dismissed."},"content":{"rendered":"
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