On March 29, 1996, a board of inquiry awarded Robert Lesperance $2,000, saying he had been treated in a "reprehensible fashion" by his employer.

The one-person board, lawyer Dirk Silversides of Regina, said that Lesperance suffered continuing derogatory verbal harassment simply because of his Aboriginal ancestry. Lesperance worked at the Regina restaurant Memories from September 1991 to September 1992.

The board said that one of the owners of Memories, Kelly Selimos, made derogatory remarks to Lesperance about Aboriginal people and, as well, referred to Lesperance in derogatory ways based on his Aboriginal ancestry.

Silversides said that Thomas Siarkos, as a partner of Memories, was liable along with Selimos for the discriminatory treatment Lesperance received.

Roy Belcourt and Fred Quewezance v. Henuset Pipeline Constr. Ltd. and John Sawatsky

In a decision handed down on July 22, 1996, a board of inquiry found that Henuset Pipeline Constr. Ltd. and John Sawatsky were liable for derogatory racial comments that Sawatsky made to two Aboriginal employees.

Roy Belcourt and Fred Quewezance testified that Sawatsky, the foreman on a pipeline project in Outlook, Saskatchewan, made disparaging remarks about their Indian ancestry. Regina lawyer Susan Barber, who acted as the one-person board, said there was enough evidence to support the allegations of derogatory racial comments and awarded Quewezance and Belcourt $700 each for injury to feelings.

Rosanne Page v. Mario Benincasa

On July 9, 1996, a board of inquiry awarded Rosanne Page of Prince Albert $2,374 in compensation for sexual harassment she suffered in the workplace.

Violet Rancourt v. Alfredo's Holdings Ltd. and Fred Soofi

On May 13, 1996, a board of inquiry ordered Alfredo's Holdings Ltd. and Fred Soofi to pay former employee Violet Rancourt of Regina $2,394.

The one-person-board, Regina lawyer Merrilee Rasmussen, said that Rancourt had been discriminated against because she was pregnant. In her decision she said that Soofi, one of the owners and the manager of Alfredo's Restaurant in Regina, wanted to reduce staff hours in May 1993. Because Rancourt was soon going to be taking a maternity leave, he reduced her hours to almost zero.

The board noted that Soofi did not intend to discriminate but pointed out that an action can be discriminatory even when there is no intention to discriminate.

Soofi testified that he wanted to hire a student under a training grant program. As a result, he need to reduce hours of staff currently employed and said he thought it was reasonable that Rancourt's hours be reduced because she would soon be leaving anyway.

Rancourt testified that she was upset and worried that her hours were cut because she was pregnant. She told the board that she had been counting on income from employment for a longer period of time before she started her maternity leave.

Dwayne and Jeanne Woolhouse; Grant Swanson and Cathy Swanson; Barbara Thomas; Louise Munns v. the Government of Saskatchewan, Department of Finance