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This summer the Federal government tabled Canada's first national accessibility law in efforts to advance accessibility for people with disabilities,

In three recent decisions, the Alberta Human Rights Tribunal (the "Tribunal") applied its decision in Grewal v Sofina Foods Inc., 2023 AHRC 46 (CanLII) ("Grewal")...

Manchester may be best known for its premiership football teams and spawning the likes of Oasis and The Smiths.

Sometimes bad facts make bad law. The BC Human Rights Code ("Code") provides that if the Tribunal finds discrimination under the Code it can order a variety of remedies under section 37...

Clarence Bennett and Ellen Oakes Thompson, of our Fredericton office, acted for the Respondent in a recent Human Rights Board of Inquiry matter reviewed in this blog.

In a recent decision still reverberating with Canadian employers, the Human Rights Tribunal of Ontario (HRTO) struck down an employer's practice of requiring job applicants to be permanently eligible to work in Canada...

The complainant, Levan Francis, had been employed as a corrections officer since 2000.

In a March 2013 decision that is likely to be challenged in the courts, the Ontario Human Rights Tribunal has ordered the reinstatement of an employee a decade after she went on disability leave, together with loss of wages from June 2003 until the date of reinstatement.

In 15th December 2017's Supreme Court of Canada decision in British Columbia Human Rights Tribunal and Schrenk, a split court held that British Columbia's Human Rights Code provides protection to employees from the discriminatory conduct of persons unrelated to their own employer, provided that the discriminatory conduct arose in their employment setting.

Increasing accessibility and decreasing barriers in the workplace for people with disabilities is an important issue in employment law.

It is part and parcel of a retail employee’s job to interact with customers and assist them in making purchases.

The national epidemic of opioid abuse and overdoses is almost a daily feature in news media. Meanwhile, recent figures indicate that prescriptions for painkillers continue to increase in Canada.

After a lengthy period of time off work, a school board failed to accommodate a teacher with their return to work within a suitable time.

General damages awarded by human rights tribunals are intended to compensate for discrimination and to act as a deterrent.

In a recent decision, the Alberta Human Rights Tribunal directed the Respondent company to pay $5,000 in costs to a Complainant, despite the fact that the Complainant produced no evidence of damages...

On October 27, 2010, the House of Commons, on third reading, narrowly voted 140 to 134 against Bill C-300, An Act respecting Corporate Accountability for the Activities of Mining, Oil or Gas in Developing Countries.

Canadian parent companies with foreign subsidiaries face some difficult policy issues that arise from the recent Ontario court decision.