LAW 529 Lecture Notes - Lecture 5: Affirmative Action, Fide, The Employer

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

Document Summary

Chapter 28 the bona fide occupational requirement and other discrimination. If yes: is the discrimination permitted by one of the statutory defences under the code, exemptions under the code are, religious, philanthropic, educational, fraternal or social institutions or. The unified approach: the 1999 meiorin decision: british columbia (public service employee relations commission) v. bcgseu (cid:894)(cid:862)meio(cid:396)i(cid:374)(cid:863)(cid:895) Was the employer acting in good faith (trying to improve performance) rather than. This branch of the test is usually satisfied: objective component (step 1 and 3 of the meiorin test): this component focuses on the standard and whether it is truly necessary to achieve a legitimate business-related objective. It asks whether the purpose of the standard is (cid:862)(cid:396)atio(cid:374)all(cid:455) (cid:272)o(cid:374)(cid:374)e(cid:272)ted(cid:863) to the pe(cid:396)fo(cid:396)(cid:373)a(cid:374)(cid:272)e of the jo(cid:271), a(cid:374)d if so, (cid:449)hethe(cid:396) it is (cid:862)(cid:396)easo(cid:374)a(cid:271)le (cid:374)e(cid:272)essa(cid:396)(cid:455)(cid:863) to appl(cid:455) the sta(cid:374)da(cid:396)d to the (cid:272)o(cid:373)plai(cid:374)a(cid:374)t in order to achieve that purpose.