DISCRIMINATION * Canada - Refusing to interview woman nets Quebec trucking company $10K fine

Montreal,QUE,CAN -Truck News -Feb 22, 2011: -- A Quebec trucking company has been ordered to pay $10,000 after refusing to consider hiring a female truck driver because of her sex...  Bernard Wolinsky, owner of Laurentian Shavings Products and Lanjay Peat Moss, was found guilty of hiring discrimination by the Quebec Human Rights Tribunal after telling a prospective hire that women have too much difficulty removing snow from the trailers...  According to evidence heard by the Tribunal, Wolinsky told the woman "We don't take women here. It's very difficult for a woman to remove the snow from the roof of the trailers".  He then told a Commission investigator who notified him of the complaint: "I don't hire women, it is my prerogative" ...  The Tribunal found the woman applicant's right to be treated with equality and dignity had been compromised. She was awarded $7,000 in moral damages and $3,000 in punitive damages...