Court orders new hearing for fired Senate HR director who alleged racial discrimination

A Federal Court justice says the Senate, in 2015, didn’t hit the mark in procedural fairness before firing Darshan Singh, the first racialized person to hold an executive job in the Upper Chamber’s administration.
A former Senate employee who said he was fired from his senior position “without cause” will get a brand-new hearing, nearly six years after being removed as the Red Chamber’s human resources director. On June 7, a Federal Court justice ruled that the grievance Darshan Singh filed following h...

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