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Not using people's preferred pronouns is a human rights offense, a Canadian tribunal ruled while settling an employment dispute.

A non-binary transgender restaurant employee in Gibsons who was fired for complaining to the owners after being called “she” and “sweetheart” by the bar manager has been awarded $30,000 after the B.C. human rights tribunal upheld a discrimination complaint.

“She said that she had been subjected to an ‘unspoken insistence that decorating with consumer goods in preparation for a religious festival is part of the job and failure to participate leaves one in the role of Scrooge,’” tribunal member Devyn Cousineau said in a March 2 decision. “As a remedy, she sought ‘a retraction of the accusation that my behaviour was disrespectful by the removal of the letter of reprimand from my personnel file.’” Cousineau noted Ashton is not Christian, and believes Christmas has become a purely commercial and consumption‐based holiday. Ashton...

Vancouver-based company Aurora Biomed has been ordered by the B.C. Human Rights Tribunal to pay a former sales associate more than $20,000 after she complained of discrimination and was later fired.