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The
tribunal's three-member panel ruled earlier this month that Carol Potvin,
Jean-Marie Audet, owners of Resto L'Inter-Pub in The
trio was ordered to pay $14,700 in compensation for ``material
losses," plus an additional $2,000 for the deliberate nature of their
actions. The
tribunal determined the owners and manager were not credible when they
said Pelletier did not work fast enough. Instead, the tribunal considered
the argument an excuse to mask discrimination prohibited under the Quebec
Charter of Human Rights and Freedoms. "The
evidence clearly demonstrates that Audet and Potvin were carrying out
renovations in their establishment to attract a younger clientele,"
states the ruling. "It
was therefore preferable, as the manager Mailloux explained, to have
pretty barmaids to draw men." The tribunal said older waitresses
were the most negatively affected by the changes to the establishment,
which had previously been called Chez Tony in this community about 250
kilometres north of
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