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#4 Discriminatory grounds such as family status, age, marital status, etc. that deal with the duty to accommodate

April 7, 2016

This posting builds upon an earlier one entitled “#2 Mental health or physical disabilities that deal with the duty to accommodate”. As indicated in that post, the duty to accommodate is always a tricky exercise and one that should be treated with the utmost circumspection. The Accommodation Process The Ontario Human Rights Code lists a

Depression + Dismissal = Damages: Lessons learned the hard way on how to handle mental illness accommodation in the workplace

October 3, 2014

Mental illness can be a taboo subject that employers shy away from discussing. Mental Illness accommodation often makes employers cringe because they either do not recognize a need to accommodate or do not know how to engage in appropriate and necessary accommodation. In the recent Northwest Territories case of Thorson v. The Government of the

Ladies’ night at the Barking Frog: The Human Rights Tribunal of Ontario weighs in

June 5, 2013

In a recent case before the Human Rights Tribunal of Ontario, Maclean v. The Barking Frog, (April 16, 2013), a man alleged that a bar had discriminated against him by charging him a higher entrance fee than women on ladies’ night. The applicant, Maclean, went out one evening with his friends to The Barking Frog,

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#4 Discriminatory grounds such as family status, age, marital status, etc. that deal with the duty to accommodate

Depression + Dismissal = Damages: Lessons learned the hard way on how to handle mental illness accommodation in the workplace

Ladies’ night at the Barking Frog: The Human Rights Tribunal of Ontario weighs in