Employee Called “Honey” By Her Co-Worker Has a Case for Sex Harassment

Whether the hair salon stared at his co-worker’s buttocks wasn’t clear. But one thing was: he repeatedly called her ‘honey’ and ‘sweetie.’ And that coupled with the other allegations was enough for the BC Human Rights Tribunal to nix the employer’s motion to dismiss and allow the employee to go forward with her discrimination complaint against the salon owner for failing to protect her from sexual harassment [Hollett v. Valentina’s Hair Studio and another (No. 2), 2020 BCHRT 189 (CanLII), October 30, 2020].