HTH 503 Lecture Notes - Lecture 4: Performance Appraisal, Reasonable Accommodation, Sexual Orientation

• School: Ryerson University
• Department: Hospitality and Tourism Management
• Course: HTH 503
• Professor: Amrita Bhalla

Document Summary

Government impact: federal and provincial laws regulate the employee-employer relationship, responsibility of hr specialists: The charter of rights and freedoms: the canadian charter of rights and freedoms is contained in the constitution act of. 1982: most far-reaching legal challenge for hr managers, charter provides fundamental rights to every canadian. Source: passed by provincial governments and enforced by provincial human rights. Source: passed by parliament and enforced by federal human rights commission/ Canadian human rights act: a federal law prohibiting discrimination, the act applies to all federal government departments and agencies. Direct discrimination: on grounds speci ed in the human rights legislation is illegal, legal discrimination: bona de occupational requirement (bfor) Company policy, practice, or action that is not openly or intentionally discriminatory, but has a discriminatory impact or effect. Prohibited grounds of discrimination: canadian human rights act. Treating an employee in a disparate manner because of that person"s sex, race, religion, age, or other protective classi cation: sexual harassment.