Stuff this morning reports on the case of a car salesman who refused to employ someone because she was a woman. Naturally, he got nailed for it, being forced to pay $6500 in a settlement after mediation failed and the Human Rights Commission turned his case over to the Office of Human Rights Proceedings to be sent to the Human Rights Review Tribunal. And so he should have been - gender is a prohibited ground of discrimination under the Human Rights Act, and it is ilegal to refuse to employ someone or offer them worse conditions on that basis. This isn't a new law - gender discrimination has been illegal in this country since 1977. But some people it seems are still living in the earlier parts of last century - and this car dealer is one of them.
[Hat-tip: The Hand Mirror]
