SASKATOON – The Saskatchewan Court of Appeal has thrown out a former employee’s long-running discrimination complaint against the University of Saskatchewan.
Bonny Peng alleged managers discriminated against her for being Taiwanese when they told her she needed to improve her English or risk losing her job as a student counsellor.
An internal investigation by the university found Peng was being underpaid and recommended that the university compensate her – which it did.
But the investigation did not support Peng’s claims about discrimination and harassment by managers and co-workers.
She complained to her union, which refused to file a grievance, and the Saskatchewan Labour Relations Board, which did not force the union to act.
Peng then went to the Saskatchewan Court of Appeal, which has sided with the university.
That means the four-year-old complaint is dead unless Peng can persuade the Supreme Court of Canada to hear the case.
The Appeal Court’s unanimous decision also awards the university its taxable legal costs in the case.
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