Sky was ordered to pay one of its employees £14,000. This was after one of her "inclusion her advocates" told her that she should consider herself oppressed because of the color of her skin.
New UK Employment Court ruling penalizes companies for workplace arousal. Hopefully, this act of justice will set off a wave of accountability in Canada as well.
Her Sky, Comcast's UK telecommunications subsidiary, was ordered to pay her £14,000 to one of her employees. rice field. crime. One of Sky's in-house "inclusion champions" told another employee that she should think she's being held back because of the color of her skin.
The court's unanimous judgment stated: Or experience. We considered claims of direct discrimination on the grounds of protected racial characteristics.
This decision affirms a very basic right. That is, employees should not be forced to play the role of victims in order to serve their employer's workplace moral play. Most people, no matter how they look, don't come to work because they want to be called inferior to their peers.
Daily Mail as 's "inclusion advocate" told engineer Jane Bradbury "during a conversation about the presentation she was planning to give on racism following the murder of George Floyd and the emergence of Black Lives Matter" of the cost. I made such a comment. After the incident, Bradbury took "a few days off work after becoming aware of his skin color and worrying that he was being discriminated against because of his race." 54} Bradbury, who is of Latin descent and was adopted by white parents, explained why he was offended in an email to his boss: It would be wrong for this person to assume because of my skin color without knowing anything about my background ethnicity or upbringing.
It is frustrating that America's racial policies have had such an impact on other countries. Derek Chauvin's killing of George Floyd in Minnesota should not lead British businesses to claim that one of his employees is sympathetic to the oppression. But the interconnected realities of today's world mean that a British court ruling could reverberate across the Atlantic. And Canada's wake-up company is going to make a wake-up call.
It has become common for some of Canada's largest companies to victimize non-white workers under the guise of "diversity and inclusion." They argue that Canadians in minority communities are not equal to their white colleagues, and without fundamental change they cannot be equal. It is in our own interest to propagate an ideology. claims.
Even some law firms, which should help clients avoid accusations of discrimination, define workers by their skin color For example, Toronto-based law firm Aird & Berlis has taken the We proudly share that commitment. “We facilitate company-wide training on unconscious bias, anti-oppression, inclusive language, relationship tensions and alliances,” said company partner and director of the Diversity and Inclusion Committee. said Andrea Skinner, chairman of the
Skinner's comments to Law Times serve as a case study of how employers indiscriminately advertise victimization to people of color. According to Skinner, Aird & Berlis celebrated Black History Month in February, claiming it was too racist and bay he invited his speakers off-the-street guests.
Aird & Berlis took her ex-lawyer to voice her grievances rather than provide a platform for black lawyers. It is clear that he chose to come. She made it on Bay Street. The company explicitly sees the inclusion of black people as a celebration of victimhood rather than a celebration of strength. It may be my wishful thinking to suggest that it could bring about some change. But appealing to universal values and ethics is not what drives workplace awakening. Perhaps the threat of lawsuits will cause employers to rethink how they treat employees of diverse backgrounds.
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