Human rights violation?

[iammrhawkeyes]

Hope this stays north of the border. Hold the fromunda please.

ezralevant.com/2008/04/the-human-right-for-mcdonalds.html

McDonald's is fanatical about hand-washing, to their credit. They have hand-washing rules. Not just the obvious "wash your hands after the bathroom" rules. But other rules, like wash your hands after shaking someone's hand. Wash your hands after retrieving food from the freezer. Wash your hands after touching a door handle. They even have a chime that goes off every hour. It's a "we're all going to wash our hands now" chime. Seriously -- see paragraph 23 of the ruling.

Datt wouldn't wash her hands. She just wouldn't -- she said she couldn't. So her employment was terminated. The B.C. Human Rights Tribunal ordered that McDonald's pay her not only $23,000 for "lost income", but an additional $25,000 for her "dignity and self-respect". You see, in B.C. a food preparation worker's self-respect trumps a company's commitment to cleanliness. They violated her "human rights".

The $50,000+ penalty -- plus several years of legal fees and medical and rehab experts -- isn't the worst of it. Inventing a "human right" for a worker to go to the bathroom and then to handle meat without washing her hands in between, as an excuse for that $50,000 shakedown isn't the worst of it either.

The worst of it is that the BCHRT has ordered that McDonald's, in paragraph 298 of the decision, to "cease the discriminatory conduct or any similar conduct and refrain from committing the same or similar contravention."

[Iowafan1]

SoCal, Icksnastyass, LPCalihawk or Bucket will undoubtedly be here any minute now to celebrate the decision and present their shameful attempt at defending their diseased, mentally challenged liberal brethren. In the meantime, I won't be visiting Vancouver anytime soon.

[germaine]

I don't use this term lightly, but that's retarded. She could, like the article said, get a different job within McDs, find another job elsewhere, take disability. I'm completely grossed out by the people at work who don't or barely wash their hands after using the facilities, and they don't even handle my food.

[GhostMod 5000]

Apr 20, 2008 9:47:28 GMT -6 Iowafan1 said:

SoCal, Icksnastyass, LPCalihawk or Bucket will undoubtedly be here any minute now for to celebrate the decision and present their shameful attempt at defending their diseased, mentally challenged liberal brethren. In the meantime, I won't be visiting Vancouver anytime soon.

I don't know who in their right mind would agree with this.

Like with many things, lawyers have completely sucked common sense out of society.

[iammrhawkeyes]

This is one issue that I'm sure we can all come together on. No poo on our burgers!

[NOTTHOR]

Is that law some analog of the Americans with Disabilities Act? If so, this was prolly a case of a liberal activist judge who had an axe to grind with McDonald's. I mean, libs like ghost think lawyers sucked all common sense out of society, but frankly, I think that laws like the ADA are generally good for people with disabilities because I want to see everyone in our society given a chance to succeed -- they are only bad when some liberal judicial activist extends their reach to obscene levels and backwards countries like Canada don't have enough lawyers to develop an appeals process to keep mouthbreathers from human rights commissions from saying "Man, I hate McDonald's, so I'm going to screw them over, man."

If the gal can't perform the bona fide occupational requirements of the job, McD's should try to adjust the job so she can (i.e. make her wear gloves that she changes every time she would have washed hands or something) or re-assign her. If that doesn't work, bye bye.

[Iowafan1]

Wait a second Ralphie, what makes you think that having to change gloves vice washing her hands would make her feel any less "offended"? It is pure idiocy. She was on a mission pure and simple....that mission being taking someone normal, like washing your hands, and turning it into a violation of her rights. I know a couple folks on this thread have made the point that we should all be for washing our hands, but the fact of the matter is there are people out there in this world who fight for change for change's sake. They fight to take everything traditional to morale society and make it an infringement of someone's rights. I don't even need to mention the label of these "people". We all know it all too well.

[NOTTHOR]

I glanced at the opinion and it is a law just like the ADA.

Those assholes at McDonald's gave her several months of short and long term disability. The nerve of those bastards.

Her being offended about getting run should have absolutely nothing to do with the judge's analysis, but this sick and twisted logic is what you get when you appoint liberals to the bench in any capacity.