HROB 2100 Lecture Notes - Lecture 1: Employment Contract, Employment Equity (Canada), Glass Ceiling

• School: University of Guelph
• Department: Human Resources and Organizational Behaviour
• Course: HROB 2100
• Professor: Rhonda Gordon

Document Summary

Balance needs of employer and employee legitimate business needs. Federally regulated employers (federal civil service, crown corporations and agencies, transportation, banking and communications) All other employers (90% of canadian workers) Embedded in policies with adverse impact on specific groups. Based on business necessity (safe and efficient operations: eg. Adjustment of employment policies/practices so that no individual is. Based on prohibited grounds in human rights legislation denied benefits or is disadvantaged: work station redesign for wheelchair. Basis determined by courts: differential treatment, enumerated ground (protected by legislation, substantive sense (is burden imposed or benefit withheld?) Accommodation: respect dignity, discrimination must be legally defensible, most appropriate accommodation should be undertaken. Unwelcome behaviour that demeans, humiliates or embarrasses a person and that a reasonable person should have known would be unwelcome. Employer responsibility: protect employees from harassment, includes harassment by clients or customers.