LAW 529 Lecture Notes - Lecture 5: Ontario Human Rights Code, Chapter 27, The Employer

• School: Ryerson University
• Department: Law and Business
• Course: LAW 529
• Professor: Peter Wilson

Document Summary

General rule: canadian human rights codes require the employer to maintain a workplace that does not violate any of the prohibited grounds of discrimination and that is free from workplace and sexual harassment. What is discrimination: discrimination is not defined in the code. Temporary or to-be-expected impairments are not included. (e. g. cold or flu) Sex: not defined, but interpreted to include pregnancy [s. 10 (2)] and transgendered people, also includes sexual harassment. (ref. Includes the status of being married, widowed, single, divorced, separated or living common law. Family status: gender identity and gender expression. Includes being in a parent and child relationship and the actual identity of family members. Includes the ways individuals experience and express their gender and protects transgendered and transsexual workers from discrimination. Harassment: harassment describes a form of prohibited conduct and not a personal or group characteristic. If the comment or conduct is sufficiently egregious, there can be a finding of harassment from a single incident;