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\nBy Robert Frank
\nwww.thesuburban.com<\/a><\/p>\n

\nAfter seven years of working morning, noon and night as a priest at Dollard des Ormeaux’ Sikh temple, Hardeep Singh Randhawa was shocked to be told by the Quebec government that he is not an employee. <\/p>\n<\/div>\n

\nThat’s what the Commission des normes du travail<\/i> told Giani Randhawa in a letter denying his claim that he was exploited, harassed and unfairly dismissed by temple officials last month. <\/p>\n

\n\u201cEvery day, I ask God what did I do wrong to deserve this?\u201d he told reporters outside the Gurdwara Sahib of Greater Montreal congregation while parishioners inside celebrated Punjab New Year festivities known as Baisakhi.<\/div>\n

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\u201cWe have been trying to help him file a complaint with the commission about this labour issue,\u201d said Mustapha Henaway of the Immigrant Worker Centre (www.iwc-pti.ca<\/a>) in C\u00f4te des Neiges. \u201cThey’re saying that a religious institution doesn’t fall under Quebec labour standards, even if they have violated his most basic labour rights.\u201d<\/p>\n

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\n\u201cWe handle some 500 individual cases per year, but this is the first time that someone working in a religious institution has come to us,\u201d the case worker explained. \u201cSo for us, it is a very new kind of case as well.\u201d <\/p>\n

\nMr. Henaway said that even though the priest’s employment agreement with the Sikh temple was for $275 per week, \u201cthey were paying him only $100 per week.\u201d <\/p>\n

\n\u201cWe are trying to help him seek back wages, overtime pay as well as compensation for the type of abuse that he faced on his last day of work-which is tantamount to what is called psychological harassment in the workplace and is illegal according to Quebec labour standards.\u201d <\/div>\n

\u201cThere is quite a paper trail on this,\u201d Mr. Henaway added. \u201cWe plan to file an appeal by the end of this week.\u201d<\/p>\n

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\n Giani Randhawa also told The Suburban<\/i> that Montreal police have asked him to make another statement about his allegations that he was beaten by three parishioners on March 11, just prior to being summarily dismissed.<\/p>\n

\n He said that he is still being treated at Lachine hospital and outpatient clinics for vertigo and brief losses of consciousness that he has suffered since the incident.<\/p>\n

\n\u201cI am unable to do anything,\u201d he said. <\/p>\n

\n\u201cI cannot plan for my future until my health improves. No one has taken notice of my plight. <\/p>\n

\nMy personal effects are still in the temple and I have not received any communication from temple officials.\u201d <\/div>\n

When The Suburban<\/i> went to press, Quebec Labour Minister Lise Th\u00e9riault’s office had not yet responded to questions as to whether the Commission des normes du travail<\/i> reached its decision in order to avoid alienating cultural communities. Last month, a senior police official told The Suburban<\/i> that police are reluctant to enter places of worship unless there is clear evidence of a crime.<\/p>\n

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After expelled priest Hardeep Singh Randhawa (centre) briefed reporters about his plight, security personnel tried to stop a CTV cameraman (left) from standing on the opposite side of the street to record images of the Sikh temple exterior in Dollard des Ormeaux. <\/p>\n

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