BU354 Lecture Notes - Lecture 2: Personal Information Protection And Electronic Documents Act, Underemployment, Reasonable Accommodation
Document Summary
Workers are permited to quite, strike, or otherwise cease employment without penalty: currently 90% of canadian workers are governed by provincial/territorial employment laws. Employees oten choose to see regulaions as a statutory loor and expect higher than minimum requirements. Employers oten prefer to view legislated guidelines as a contractual ceiling and align maximum commitment levels to the minimums established in the guidelines. Legislaion protecing the general populaion: charter of rights and freedoms: guarantees fundamental freedoms to all canadians. Takes precedence over all other laws, which means that all legislaion must meet charter standards, thus, it is quite far-reaching in scope. Freedom of thought, belief, opinion, and expressions, including freedom of the press and other media of communicaion. Equality right: secion 15 of the charter of rights and freedoms, which guarantees the right to equal protecion and beneit of the law without discriminaion.
