Check your chauffeur's lifestyle?
Sometimes I wonder what basis people use to make decisions. According to this article:
Now, I'm not sure that BDSM constitutes a sexual orientiaton - it seems to me that orientation is less about what you do than who you do it with - but I don't think he should be discriminated against because of it either. What I really don't get is how any of this is at all relevant to this guy's ability to safely pilot a limo filled with passengers around the greater Vancouver area. It seems to me the VPD should be more concerned about potential chauffeur's driving record and whether they have any criminal convictions than unrelated legal activities the candidates engage in during their personal time.
Hat tip to Wren's Nest.
A Vancouver man, Peter Hayes, has accused the Vancouver police of illegal discrimination because of his involvement in BDSM. Hayes says that he lost a potential job as a limousine driver when police refused him a chauffeur's permit and has taken his case to the Human Rights Tribunal.
Now, I'm not sure that BDSM constitutes a sexual orientiaton - it seems to me that orientation is less about what you do than who you do it with - but I don't think he should be discriminated against because of it either. What I really don't get is how any of this is at all relevant to this guy's ability to safely pilot a limo filled with passengers around the greater Vancouver area. It seems to me the VPD should be more concerned about potential chauffeur's driving record and whether they have any criminal convictions than unrelated legal activities the candidates engage in during their personal time.
Hat tip to Wren's Nest.
posted by skysinger at 9:23 AM
2 Comments:
Thank you. (smile) It is about equal rights for all genders in the workplace more than anything. I know many cops, teachers and medical staff who are BDSM lifestylers and it's time the laws caught up with real life and the discrimination ended. This change arrives right after the recent supreme court decision that "group sex" (in "public"(inside swingers clubs)) is not offensive to Canadian society. Now it's lifestyler's turn for the same treatment. If anything my argument is that Old Guard lifestylers know more about proper protocols in the workplace than any other (already represented and protected) group in the Canadian charter of Human rights and freedoms. Thank you for sharing this article with others - it's become a world-wide phenomena with over 100 pages where it's been shared so far on average. (smiles and goes back to work on his case) I wish you all well. (bows politely)
Thank you. (smile) It is about equal rights for all genders in the workplace more than anything. I know many cops, teachers and medical staff who are BDSM lifestylers and it's time the laws caught up with real life and the discrimination ended. This change arrives right after the recent supreme court decision that "group sex" (in "public"(inside swingers clubs)) is not offensive to Canadian society. Now it's lifestyler's turn for the same treatment. If anything my argument is that Old Guard lifestylers know more about proper protocols in the workplace than any other (already represented and protected) group in the Canadian charter of Human rights and freedoms. Thank you for sharing this article with others - it's become a world-wide phenomena with over 100 pages where it's been shared so far on average. (smiles and goes back to work on his case) I wish you all well. (bows politely)
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