FERNIE, B.C. – The TDL Group Corp., also known as Tim Hortons Inc., has come to a settlement with the United Steelworkers (USW) regarding a human-rights complaint alleging racial discrimination against temporary foreign workers at a Fernie location of the coffee-shop franchise. A USW media release stated that the union had settled with the employer on Dec. 13. The USW initially filed the complaint on behalf of the restaurant’s Filipino employees with the British Columbia Human Rights Tribunal in Dec. 2013, accusing the employer of having discriminated against them by denying overtime premiums, scheduling them for undesirable shifts and threatening them with deportation (COHSN, Nov. 10, 2015). Pierre Joseph Pelletier and Kristin Hovind-Pelletier, the restaurant owners, were also accused of making six of the employees rent substandard accommodations. The workers approached both the union’s local chapter and the public about their employment issues. “The parties reached a fair resolution to the satisfaction of the parties,” the release stated. The Tribunal had previously thrown out an application by Tim Hortons to dismiss the complaint.