April 2, 2008
Source: The Times of India
http://timesofindia.indiatimes.com/Canadian_Sikhs_appeal_against_helmet_rule/articleshow/2918483.cms
Two Canadian Sikhs have moved a rights panel against a lumber company here for asking them to replace turbans with helmets under a new policy.
The new rule has come as a shock to the two men who have been working with the company for years.
In their petition to the British Columbia Human Rights Tribunal against International Forest Products (Interfor), Mander Sohal and Kulwant Singh Sahota have said that the new hard hat policy went against their religious tenets which insist on turban for a devout Sikh.