MHR 523 Chapter Notes - Chapter 2: Black Top Records, Equal Protection Clause, Protected Group
16 Mar 2016
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The legal framework for employment law in canada. There are a number of disinct sets of responsibiliies that exist between the employee and employer, including formal and informal expectaions. There is a mutual expectaion of each party to maintain the employment relaionship by fulilling their own responsibiliies within the relaionship. The primary objecive of most employment legislaion in canada is to prevent employers from exploiing paid workers, assuming that an implicit power imbalance exists in the employment relaionship (in favour of the employer) While employers have a right to modify employee work terms and arrangements according to legiimate business needs, employees have the right to be protected from harmful business pracices. Human rights legislaion makes it illegal to discriminate, even unintenionally, against various groups. The focus of such legislaion in on the types of acts in which employers should not engage.
