Khaira Enterprises: Khaira Enterprises has been ordered to pay each worker $10,000 for injury to dignity and self-respect plus $1,000 per 30-day period worked or portion thereof between March 17, 2010, and June 17, 2010. , according to CBC. "Both Bajwa and Sunny have been found, in this decision, to have engaged in conduct which is discriminatory on a basis of race, colour and place of origin and on the basis of sex," said Trerise ruling. The B.C. Human Rights Tribunal has ruled the operators of a tree-planting business in Golden, B.C., racially discriminated against 55 workers from Congo in 2010. Tribunal member Norman Trerise says in his 114-page ruling that Khalid Bajwa and Hardilpreet Sunny Sidhu, the owners of Khaira Enterprises, taunted and harassed the 55 workers with racial slurs and had a blatant disregard for employment standards. On mobile? Click here for a photogallery of conditions at the camp Full details of the tree planter testimony and the final decision Tree-planting becoming full-time employment for youth
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