Black Metrolinx workers fired for failing background checks make their case before human rights tribunal

When Thairu Taban and Josslyn Mounsey landed dispatcher jobs at Metrolinx in May 2019, it felt like everything was falling into place. 

Growing up in low-income Toronto neighbourhoods, they say they both listened to their mothers’ advice: stay away from crime, work hard in school, build a better life. 

Taban, 25, said that mantra is what motivated him as a boy to sit down and finish his homework every night on his own, while his mother was at work.

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