Tribunal rules in favour of gay Indigenous man rejected for Alberta auto shop job
VEGREVILLE, Alta. — A gay First Nations man who was turned down for a job at an autobody shop east of Edmonton has been awarded $56,000 in damages and lost wages by a human rights tribunal.
The Alberta Human Rights Commission said in a written decision last month that Rambo Landry applied for an administrative job at Vegreville Autobody Ltd. about a year after he and his husband, an RCMP staff sergeant, moved to the area from the Northwest Territories.
Myron Hayduk — a co-owner of the shop who was Vegreville’s mayor at the time — conducted a 75-minute interview with Landry, the tribunal heard.
Landry testified that Hayduk spent an estimated 80 per cent of that time discussing religion, marriage, race, sexual orientation and other matters unrelated to the job.