One Province Is Investigating A Job Posting That Asked For White Women Health Care Workers

A Canadian health care facility is under fire after a job posting asked for "white skinned" women health care workers only.

Saint-Eustache, a hospital in Quebec, was called out for reportedly trying to recruit "white women only" last fall to care for a patient who made the request, according to La Presse. 

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Per the report, the human resources team of the hospital explained that the flyer went up because of a "difficult patient" who "only wanted a woman of white skin colour."

In response to this, Genevieve Guilbault, Quebec's deputy premier, reportedly expressed that any job that singles out someone based on what they look like among other things is not acceptable.  

"A job offer that prescribes an ethnic origin, a sex or a sexual orientation, or anything of the kind, that does not make any sense,” she said. Guilbault also said a patient with "cognitive impairment" is still not a reason for employees to be picked based on their skin colour.