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Murder Discrimination

Jean-Alix Miguel murdered his wife, a crime that earned him a paltry 7 years in prison. When he got out of prison, he got a job teaching school in Montreal. It took the school board 6 years to do a background check on Miguel, and when they discovered his murder conviction they fired him – not for being a confessed murderer, but for failing to disclose it on his application.

Not weird enough for you? Well, Miguel took his firing to arbitration, and won. It seems that the arbitrator didn’t agree that the school board fired Miguel for lying on his application. No, the arbitrator thought that was just a ruse, and that the school board actually fired Miguel for being a murderer. Can’t have that! Miguel was reinstated.

Wingless has this story of murder discrimination.

July 16th, 2008 Posted by Fitzroy | Education, Law | no comments