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Hiring a foreign worker in Canada can help employers fill important roles, but it also requires cautious planning. Before making an offer, employers should stay informed about the legal and practical issues that can arise during recruitment, contracting, and onboarding of foreign workers.

Loi fédérale sur l'accessibilité et engagements du gouvernement de la Colombie-Britannique à adopter une loi similaire

a Trinity Western University graduate was awarded over $8,500 by the B.C. Human Rights Tribunal because of a company's refusal to hire her due, in part, to her religious beliefs.

On May 26, 2017, the Canadian Human Rights Tribunal ("Tribunal") released a new ruling regarding the implementation of Jordan's Principle by the Government of Canada.

For the first time in 19 years, the Office of the Privacy Commissioner of Canada ("OPC") has updated its ‘Privacy in the Workplace' guidance document (the "Guidance"), bringing it more in line with employee privacy...

On January 17, 2019, NSFTB announced changes to the Province's Equity Tax Credit program, a popular tax credit program that has been in place since 1994 and utilized by many Nova Scotia companies and investors...

The Canadian Government recently announced two new initiatives to "strengthen Canada's approach to responsible business conduct for Canadian companies doing business and operating abroad."

Treatment of prisoners is a big issue that for the most part, goes unseen by many all over the world.

Many individuals experience discrimination, harassment and even violence as a result of having a gender identity which differs from their biological sex.

In my opinion, [the concept of family status] cannot be an open-ended concept … for that would have the potential to cause disruption and great mischief in the workplace ….

The recent decision from the Human Rights Tribunal of Alberta (the "Tribunal") in Tolentino v His Majesty the King in right of Alberta (Alberta Justice and Solicitor General), 2023 AHRC 112...

Birju Dattani was a relatively unknown bureaucrat until two weeks ago. A young lawyer who had occupied only middling positions in human rights commissions and...

In Adair v. Forensic Psychiatric Services Commission (No. 2), 2017 BCHRT 147, the B.C. Human Rights Tribunal revisited what accommodation looks like in the employment context.

The recent decision in Weilgosh v. London District Catholic School Board, 2022 HRTO 1194 ("Weilgosh"), confirms that the Human Rights Tribunal of Ontario (the "Tribunal") shares concurrent...

On October 7, 2015, the Human Rights Tribunal of Ontario released a significant decision on the issue of whether a school board's denial of a promotion to an existing employee on the basis that the employee did not meet a language proficiency requirement of the job constituted discrimination.

The AHRC determined that AHS had failed to accommodate the Complainant's disability.

In Gaucher v. Fraser Health Authority and others, 2019 BCHRT 243, the Human Rights Tribunal dismissed without a hearing the human rights complaint of a nurse regarding her attempts to return...