MHR 523 Lecture 4: MHR523 - Class 4 Notes
2 Nov 2016
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The legal frame work for employment in canada. Federally regulated employers (federal civil service, crown corporations and agencies, transportation, banking and communications: provincial/territorial employment laws. All other employers (90% of canadian workers) Hierarchy of employment legislation in canada: canadian charter of rights and freedoms. Basic rights for all canadians: human rights legislation. Protection from discrimination: employment standards legislation. Minimum terms and conditions of employment: ordinary laws content or context specific, collective bargaining agreement. Tort law: primarily judge-based law, precedent and jurisprudences set by one judge through his or her assessment of a case, establishes how similar cases will be interpreted. Legislation protecting the general population: the canadian charter of rights and freedoms. Freedoms freedom of conscience and religion freedom of thought, belief, expression and opinion. Fall 2016 freedom of peaceful assembly freedom of association: section 15 equality rights right to equal protection and benefit of the law without discrimination, human rights legislation jurisdictions specific legislation.
