HRM200 Chapter Notes - Chapter 2: Job Design, Reverse Discrimination, Occupational Segregation
22 Apr 2013
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Constitutional law: charter of rights and freedoms. Legislated acts of parliament: income tax act. Regulations (for legislated acts: rules to aid interpretation of laws. Common law: judicial precedents established when people go to court. Federal laws govern 10% of workers in federal civil service: Provides minimum entitlements for employees: minimum wage, holidays and vacation, maternity/parental leave. Provides maximum obligations e. g. hours of work: exceptions: seasonal workers (i. e. farmers) Requires equal pay for equal work (male and female workers) Based on charter of rights and freedoms (1982), which provides fundamental freedoms: conscience and religion, thought, belief, opinion and expression, peaceful assembly, association. Distinction, exclusion or preference based on a prohibited ground nullifies or impairs an employee"s rights to: full and equal recognition, exercise of human rights and freedoms. Prohibited grounds of discrimination: race, colour, age, sex, marital/family status, religion/creed, physical and mental, handicap, ethnic/national origin. Intentional: direct, differential/unequal treatment, indirect, based on association.
