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The owner of two mosques lobbied a contractor to ensure that there were no women on construction sites near his places of worship on Friday prayers.
The man who owns the Ahl-Ill Bait Mosque, located in the Côte-des-Neiges-Notre-Dame-de-Grâce borough in Montreal, first asked the contractor not to do any work on Friday. not to harm the day of prayer. This request was denied because of the delays that would have resulted.
He then demanded that the women not be visible on Fridays on the building sites near the two mosques. This clause is written in black on white in the contract signed by the contractor.
The measure targets five women, four signalers and one engineer, who had to be reassigned elsewhere, according to information obtained via the TVA News Facebook account.
"Set back, just a little further"
"Today, in construction, we have a lot of women, because we managed to get them back [in the middle]," said Jean-Sébastien Samson, foreman for G-Tech, TVA New.
Mr. Samson mentioned that a female worker covered by the application "worked the same way", but that her presence required some accommodation.
"She did not run out of work because she could not be there, except that she was put away, a little further," he said.
For his part, the CEO of Map Signalisation only became aware of this requirement on Monday because he had been away for two weeks. "I thought that was completely unacceptable," Marc-Alexandre Perreault told TVA Nouvelles.
Nevertheless, he felt compelled to endorse this request. "I was told she would be in danger if she worked on a Friday. Once she was forced to work and she had to be accompanied by a worker, "said Perreault, who spoke of threats and intimidation.
He maintains that women have their place on construction sites. "No matter, the job site, no matter where, women have the same right to work on any job site," he insisted.
"Unacceptable"
The official opposition critic for the status of women, Catherine Fournier, believes that this is a case of discrimination.
"It goes against the Charter of Rights and Freedoms of Quebec. I find it completely unacceptable that religion is used as a pretext to violate equality between men and women, "said MP Catherine Fournier.
Mosque officials say they have asked companies to prevent women from working on construction sites on Fridays and speak up. "There is someone behind, who wants to harm the mosque. I do not know, me, "said one of them.
The construction site has been active for a little over a month in this sector of the city. The women who worked there were moved from the site three weeks ago.
Colleagues of the targeted women are planning
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