LAW 529 Lecture Notes - Lecture 13: Workplace Harassment, Human Rights Commission, Reasonable Accommodation

• School: Ryerson University
• Department: Law and Business
• Course: LAW 529
• Professor: Pnina Alon- Shenker

Document Summary

Lecture 13 law529 dec 4th 2015. Code prohibits workplace and sexual harassment in employment. S. 5(2): ee have right to be free from harassment in the workplace by the er or agent of the er or by another ee b/c one or more of prohibited grounds. Harassment (s. 10): engaging in a course of vexatious comment or conduct that is known or ougly. Harassment is quasi-criminal -> not related to the ohrc but it is interpreted as one. S. 7(2): ees have the right to be free from sexual harassment. Requires course of conduct that is known or ought reasonably to be known to be unwelcome. May be practice by m on f, f on m or between m and m. Janzen v. play enterprises: unwelcome conduct of a sexual nature that detrimentally affects the workplace environment or leads to adverse job consequences for the victims of harassment -> physical or verbal.