The British Columbia Human Rights Tribunal has ordered {that a} taxi driver be paid greater than $9,000 in compensation as a result of his caste was insulted throughout a bodily altercation at a employees Christmas occasion.
The tribunal’s March 15 determination says Manoj Bhangu, an immigrant from Punjab in India, was discriminated towards by two co-workers on the idea of his ancestry, fatherland, and race.
Tribunal adjudicator Sonya Pighin says brothers Inderjit and Avninder Dhillon used a caste-based slur towards Bhangu through the brawl on the B.C. agency’s 2018 occasion, and ordered that they pay him $9,755 in compensation.
Pighin says within the determination that though she couldn’t conclude the brothers regarded Bhangu as their inferior, he had confirmed his “protected characteristics” have been an element within the adversarial psychological impacts he suffered.
She says Bhangu offered uncontested proof he skilled shock and embarrassment after the incident and described it as tough for him to clarify to his kids what occurred.
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India’s caste system dividing Hindus was formally abolished in 1950, however the social hierarchy nonetheless pervades many features of life there.
The system divided Hindus into 4 principal classes, deciding what jobs they may do and who they may marry.
Bhangu accused a 3rd particular person of utilizing the slur, however the grievance was dismissed.
