Khaira Enterprises Ltd. and Norman Trerise

Norman Trerise: In a ruling released Friday, tribunal member Norman Trerise said the owners of Khaira Enterprises Ltd. had no regard for employment standards for the 55 workers who launched the human rights complaints, according to CTV. "All of them were victims of Khaira blatant disregard for the Employment Standards Act and its requirement respecting time of payment, overtime, vacation pay, hours of work, working camp conditions and so forth, regardless of whether they were black African workers or not." - Racial taunts and other discriminatory behaviour aimed at a group of African workers has prompted the B.C. Human Rights Tribunal to order the owners of a tree planting firm to pay them more than $600,000 for injury to their dignity and self respect. "There is little doubt that every worker who worked for Khaira in 2010 experienced some form of adverse treatment," Trerise said in his ruling. (www.immigrantscanada.com). As reported in the news.