The British Columbia Human Rights Tribunal has ordered McDonald's to pay $55,000 for failing to do enough to accommodate an employee whose disabling skin condition prevented her from complying with the restaurant's hand-washing policy. Among other grounds for its decision, the tribunal cited the following:
There was no evidence of:
* the relationship between food contamination and hand-washing;...
--Overlawyered.com
If any given legal body insists on flagrantly exceeding its fact-finding mission, the least it can do is avoid getting the facts ludicrously wrong.
Posted by Matt Bruce at April 16, 2008 10:59 AM