An employee's guide dog causes a severe allergic reaction
for co-workers. A religious employer requires employees
to sign a faith-based code of conduct as a term of their
employment. These are examples of cases where competing human
rights may exist in the workplace.
In order to assist organizations working through disputes which
pitch competing human rights against one another, the Ontario Human
Rights Commission developed a policy earlier this year which is
meant to be a tool for resolving those disputes. Although any
dispute which pits competing human rights against one another will
inevitably be determined based on the specific facts involved, the
Commission's policy has created a framework to assist with
resolving those disputes before they become the subject of
litigation.
