A Fair Employment Practices Act has passed its final reading in the British Columbia legislature and a similar bill has been introduced in the New Brunswick legislature, it was reported here today in a survey of FEP activity in Canada released by the National Joint Public Relations Committee of the Canadian Jewish Congress and B’nai B’rith.
The group also revealed that the provincial government of Saskatchewan has proposed two new statutes–an FEP Act and a Fair Accommodation Practice Act–to replace sections of the provincial Bill of Rights. Chief differences between the old legislation and the new are special enforcement and administrative procedures incorporating machinery for investigation and settlement of complaints out of court. The Act would be binding on all employers of labor, including private and public, regardless of the number of people they employ, and it provides for an increasing scale of fines for repeated offenses.
Meanwhile, Ontario authorities have won a victory in the second conviction of a Freshen, Ontario, restaurateur who refused to serve a Negro. The first time the case was thrown back to the magistrate’s level by an appellate court. The second conviction was again handed down by a Magistrate.
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