HRM200 Lecture Notes - Lecture 2: Glass Ceiling, Employment Contract, Equal Protection Clause

• School: University of Waterloo
• Department: Human Resources Management
• Course: HRM200
• Professor: William Peckham

Document Summary

Chapter 2: the changing legal emphasis, compliance and impact on canadian workplaces. Federal laws federally regulated employers (federal civil service, crown corporaions and agencies, transportaion, banking and communicaions) Provincial/territorial employment laws all other employers (90% of canadian workers) Canadian charter of rights and freedoms basic rights for all canadians. Minimum terms and condiions of employment: ordinary laws content or context speciic. Freedoms freedom of conscience and religion freedom of thought, belief, expression and opinion freedom of peaceful assembly freedom of associaion. Secion 15 equality rights right to equal protecion and beneit of the law without discriminaion. Intenional discriminaion direct diferenial or unequal treatment indirect (3rd party) by associaion. Unintenional discriminaion construcive or systemic discriminaion embedded in policies with adverse impact on speciic groups. Bona fide occupaional requirement (bfor) jusiiable reason for discriminaion based on business necessity (safe and eicient operaions) e. g. vision standards for bus driver. Impossible to accommodate without undue hardship on employer.