Posted on 04/16/2021 10:52:17 AM PDT by billorites
One of the GTA's largest property developers says it was "extremely inappropriate and entirely unacceptable" that workers associated with one of its dry wall contractors had a stripper at a job site last week in the middle of the pandemic.
Mattamy Homes confirmed photos of the incident that had been posted on Twitter showed several people involved with Nelmar Drywall, all of whom have since been fired, partying with a stripper at one of its job sites on April 9. Nelmar itself has denounced the conduct of the workers and says it's taking steps to make sure it doesn't happen again.
Photos included in the post show a woman interacting with multiple men at a construction site, one of whom is wearing a Nelmar Drywall Co Ltd shirt. A bottle of Grey Goose vodka can be seen in one of the series of photos.
CBC News also obtained graphic video of the incident showing at least four men watching and two men touching the woman while she dances. Nobody in the video is wearing a mask or physically distancing, despite government rules for job sites. One of the photos attached in the post uploaded to Twitter shows a man holding a woman at a construction site. (Twitter)
The images of the partying emerged on the same-day Ontario recorded 4,736 new COVID-19 cases and health officials warned of a "dire" situation facing the province's healthcare system. On Friday, sources say Ontario Premier Doug Ford's government could enhance its current stay-at-home, in part by tightening rules for the construction industry.
The development company says the individuals involved in the incident behaved in a "grossly inappropriate and reckless fashion," and that Nelmar Drywall has terminated its relationship with everyone involved.
"We hold our trade partners to a high standard and insist that they conduct themselves professionally and ethically. Those standards were not met in this case," Mattamy Homes said in an emailed statement.
The company says it had no prior knowledge of the event and that none of its employees were present. "We nonetheless regret that this incident took place at one of our sites."
Mattamy Homes says it will be reinforcing its policies and expectations of all Mattamy's trade partners regarding its workplace code of conduct, as well as its COVID-19 protocols.
The developer said it will also review its site security procedures and will make adjustments where necessary. Nelmar Drywall denounces conduct in video, images
Representatives of Nelmar Drywall Co. Ltd. told CBC News that a video and various images of the incident depict "inappropriate and completely unacceptable conduct."
"Nelmar wholeheartedly denounces the conduct displayed," lawyers said in an emailed statement, adding that the company was unaware of the incident prior to the circulation of the video and images.
The statement says that the conduct displayed is in violation of Nelmar's code of conduct and company policies, including those related to COVID-19 protocols, workplace anti-discrimination and anti-harassment.
"Upon being made aware of the incident, Nelmar took immediate steps to investigate the matter to determine the identity of all those individuals involved," the statement says.
"Nelmar has terminated the employment of all persons involved in the incident."
Further steps may be expected where necessary, Nelmar says, including additional workplace training and increased monitoring "to prevent any such conduct at its job sites or workplace in the future.
Where’s Hunter?
Aw, c’mon man! Who among us has not hired a stripper while putting up drywall?
TTIWWP
Or iron workers.
Stripper, drywall? How else do you get the paper off of it?
Oh, THAT kind of stripper....
Never mind.
Who complained?
One of the wives, probably. She looked at her husband’s cell phone. Put 2 and 2 together.
I must be out of touch. I don’t see a problem. I mean, we have a National Holiday for a man that hired prostitutes and beat on them.
By coincidence,
The National Pipelayers Convention has suddenly been postponed
indefinitely!
Goodness! What would ever motivate them to do that?
And what kind of idiot drywaller would post pics of people in compromising positions??? You don't do that to your buddies! That violates the man code!!!
Of course, that ended when a new CG took over, whose wife wore her husband's rank.
At my battalion's HQ in Germany, the Battalion CO's secretary ordered birthday cakes from a nearby bakery, and the cakes were anatomically correct, with a cherry in the appropriate spot.
Those were the good old days.
During my freshman year in college, the Professor of Military Science always had a keg at the end of our monthly training exercise on Saturdays, and he never checked ID cards for age.
When I turned 18, my stepfather told me I could grab a beer from the refrigerator whenever I wanted. My mom didn't say a word. They grew up during the Depression and WWII, turning 18 meant you were an adult, no matter what the government said about the drinking age.
“In a pandemic”
I guess it’s just fine otherwise
So supporting a small business is bad? She has bills, too.
Oh, Canada!
These guys will have new jobs in a New York minute.
Good drywallers are NOT a dime a dozen.
I love the SJW prudes on Twitter acting like they've triumphed over these guys. The Twitter jerks have never broken a sweat in their tiny little lives.
Were it not for the covid bit, this would have been no problem.
“You don’t do that to your buddies! That violates the man code!!!”
Someone needs to find the ratfink and permanently torch his Man Card. Hand him a Squats When Pee’s Card.
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