MHR 505 Lecture Notes - Lecture 5: Canada Border Services Agency, Parental Leave, Kbr (Company)
6 Mar 2016
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Bona fide occupaional requirement: duty to accommodate. Family status: on-the-job drug and alcohol tesing, harassment. Canadian human rights codes require the employer to maintain a workplace that does not violate any of the prohibited grounds of discriminaion and that is free from workplace and sexual harassment. The meaning has expanded over ime from intenional acts of discriminaion, to employer standards, requirements, policies or other qualiicaions that unintenionally result in discriminatory treatment of certain groups or individuals. This is relected in the concept of construcive discriminaion. [s. 11 of the ontario. They are personal or group characterisics that, prima facie (at irst sight), cannot form the basis for treatment or decision-making in employment. A sustainable claim of discriminaion must fall within one of the prohibited grounds. Canadian human rights codes vary in their prohibited grounds of discriminaion. The ontario code permits discriminaion in prescribed situaions and under prescribed circumstances.
