HRM200 Lecture Notes - Lecture 2: Reasonable Accommodation, Protected Group, Employment Contract

• School: University of Waterloo
• Department: Human Resources Management
• Course: HRM200
• Professor: William Peckham

Document Summary

Employer: right to modify employee work for legit business needs. Employee: right to be protected from harmful business practices. Employment legislation: prevent employers from exploiting paid workers from the power imbalance between employee and employer. Federal laws: federally regulated employers (crown corps, civil service) Provincial employment laws (all other employers (90% of canadian workers) Charter of rights and freedoms: basic rights. Human rights legislation: protection from intentional and unintentional discrimination (based on protected grounds) Employment standards legislation: min. term and conditions of employment. Ordinary laws: content specific (occupational health and safety, union relations, equity acts, income tax act) Primarily judge-based law where the precedent and jurisprudences set by one judge through his or her assessment of a case, establishes how similar case are interpreted. Regulations: legally binding rules by special regulatory bodies to enforce compliance with law and aid in interpretation.