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The Quebec Human Rights Commission ruled a Montreal, Canada woman was sent home from work over her braided hairstyle was a victim of workplace discrimination. Madison’s New York Bar and Grill is now ordered to fork over $14,500 to Lettia McNickle Global News Canada reported.

The incident took place four years ago when McNickle remembers the sadness she felt when her manager Roulla Kyriacou, sent her home in November 2014 for her hair, which was in cornrows at the time.

The 23-year-old said, “She took me aside personally and told me she did not want that kind of hairstyle in her establishment. Now that today it actually came to this [decision], I feel proud.”

“Now they [Madison’s] know and other restaurants and companies know that they can’t get away with this,” McNickle added.

McNickle said she began working at the steakhouse in October of 2014 and noticed issues from the start. One day she was wearing pants as the company’s dress code required but Kyriacou insisted she wears skirts “above the knee.” A couple weeks later the incident occurred when Kyriacou sent her home.

“It didn’t really kick in until I almost got home. I called my mother and I started to cry because I didn’t believe it was actually happening,” McNickle told the Montreal Gazette.

McNickle decided to change her hairstyle, but kept the braids. When Kyriacou saw her, she went “ballistic,” she said.

“Publicly — in front of customers, in front of employees — embarrassing me and telling me that, my hairstyle, she doesn’t want it here and that the managers didn’t give her message properly,” McNickle remembered.

Shortly after this conversation, McNickle said her hours were cut until she was fired in March 2015. The next month she filed a complaint with the Human Rights Commission the following month.

Kyriacou has kept her position that she isn’t a racist and employs people of all backgrounds. The restaurant’s corporate office issued an apology after the incident made headlines and agreed to have mediation sessions with McNickle. The company reneged this decision a few weeks later.

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