Agency terminated employee after she won a human rights complaint
A travel agency has been fined nearly $60,000 for firing an employee just three weeks after she won a human rights complaint against the agency.
Sui-Fan Chan, a customer service representative with Toronto-based Tai Pan Vacations, filed a complaint with the Ontario Human Rights Commission after her employer put her on unpaid leave when she told her superiors she was pregnant in 2005.
Chan later had a miscarriage and was awarded seven weeks of lost wages in a settlement in March 2007. Tai Pan fired her without cause three weeks later.
The company's decision to terminate Chan was a "calculated retaliation," Human Rights Tribunal of Ontario vice-chair Eric Whist wrote in the decision released this week.
The tribunal ordered Tai Pan Vacations to pay Chan $15,000 for her dismissal and more than $42,000 in lost wages and benefits.
