Nose rings v. Starbucks discrimination case in Canada now enters fourth year

[Omaha Steve]

http://blog.oregonlive.com/nwheadlines/2007/08/nose_rings_v_starbucks_discrim.html

Nose rings v. Starbucks discrimination case in Canada now enters fourth year.
Posted by The Oregonian August 16, 2007 06:30AM
Categories: Puget Sound

Two Indo-Canadian women, Benita Singh and Aisha Syed, filed complaints in 2003 with the British Columbia Human Rights Tribunal after Starbucks fired them for wearing nose rings. The case has wallowed since then though a hearing is now scheduled for Nov. 14. If the cultural aspect can be proven, there is legal precedent in Canada that might favor the women.

The Vancouver Sun has the story.

The CBC has been ordered by the B.C. Human Rights Tribunal to hand over an interview with Benita Singh, one of two Indo-Canadian ex-Starbucks employees who filed human rights complaints against the coffee behemoth after being fired for refusing to remove a nose ring.

Starbucks was granted its request Friday for transcripts of a 2003 CBC interview with Singh, in which she discussed her dismissal from Starbucks and her reasons for wearing a nose ring.

FULL story at link.

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[MrSlayer]

2. I once left a fast food restaurant because the counter person had a nose ring.

She kept playing with it and twisting it and then handling food. It was disgusting.

[DemBones DemBones]

3. People should know not to touch their face at all when

handling food, nose ring or not.

Her nose ring was probably new; I remember playing with my earrings when I first had my ears pierced.

[DemBones DemBones]

4. That headline. . .

:rofl: