COMM 181 Lecture Notes - Performance Metric, Goal Setting, Polskie Radio Program I

• School: Queen's University
• Department: Commerce
• Course: COMM 181
• Professor: Christine Coulter

Document Summary

Direct discrimination- on grounds specified in the human rights legislation is illegal. Company policy, practice, or action that is not openly or intentionally discriminatory but has an indirect discriminatory impact or effect. Disney with woman being fired for consistently wearing her head scarf (hijab) . Since they are a privately owned corporation only worried about maximizing profit, they have the right to protect their image. As long as the rule of dress code and appearance is equally enforced to all religions, then it is fair. Meiron test of a bone fide occupational requirement: A firefighter who successfully completed her job for 3 years out west, and then the managers decided to implement fitness standards. Firefighters had to be able to run 2. 5 km in 11 minutes. She passed every fitness test except for the running challenge. ***if the answer is no to any one of questions 2,3 or 4, the discrimination is illegal****