Former teacher wins age discrimination complaint against N.S. school board

Published Wednesday November 25th, 2009

THE CANADIAN PRESS

HALIFAX, N.S. - An independent board of inquiry has awarded Robert Theriault $64,515 for financial losses and damages resulting from his forced retirement from an Acadian school board in Nova Scotia.

Board chairman Don Murray, in a ruling released today, accepted that Theriault felt betrayed, bitter, disillusioned, upset and frustrated. Theriault filed his complaint with the Nova Scotia Human Rights Commission after the French-language board forced him to retire in 2005.

Human rights commission CEO Krista Daley says the board of inquiry's decision recognizes the impact that a discriminatory act can have on an individual.

She says it's "gratifying to see that the board chair found that age discrimination is no different than any other discrimination."

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