A St. Laurent-based company has been once again ordered to pay damages to 15 employees who were insulted at work.

The Quebec Human Rights Tribunal is ordering Calego International, along with the Vincent employment agency, to pay $150,000 in moral and punitive damages to the workers.

The case dates back to 2006, when Calego's owner invited only workers of chinese origin to a company meeting.

At that meeting Stephen Rapps told them they ate like pigs, said they had poor personal hygiene, and offered other insults.

No other workers at the company were criticized for their behaviour.

The group was very upset, and the next day many asked for an apology, but never got one.

Undeterred the workers took the case the Quebec's Human Rights Commission, which in 2009 ruled in their favour.

However the Commission's judgement was not binding, so the employees continued to pursue the case with the Human Rights Tribunal.

In addition to the cash judgement, the Tribunal ruled that Rapps must set up a company program to prevent discrimination based on ethnicity or country of origin.