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Sexual harassment in the workplace has been all over the news lately. Most people are hopefully getting the message that harassment in all its forms, including vexatious comments and non-consensual touching, is unacceptable. Employers need to keep in mind, however, that even consensual workplace relationships can come with a host of problems. Although they are
To say sexual harassment is a hot topic at the moment is an understatement. From Donald Trump’s now infamous Access Hollywood tape to multiple reports at Fox News to the Harvey Weinstein scandal, there is heightened awareness of the seriousness of sexual harassment and its impacts, particularly in the workplace. Despite the high profile nature
I started seeing the #metoo hashtag being posted by friends and acquaintances on Twitter and Facebook one Sunday evening, and by the next morning it seemed that every woman I knew had chimed in. For those who don’t know, a picture started circulating on social media that read: If all the women who have been
In the last two months alone, there have been numerous reports of students alleging that their university mishandled complaints of sexual harassment. From Ontario to BC, it is clear that Canadian students want their post-secondary institutions to address the longstanding and highly charged issue of sexual harassment on campus – but not without their participation
Constructive dismissal cases are tricky. The onus is on the employee to prove her case, often in the face of strong opposition from the employer. Moreover, the test is an objective one. It is not the employee’s subjective assessment of the workplace conditions that rules the day. Rather, it is the legal decision maker’s assessment
It has been less than two years since Madame Justice Marie Deschamps released her report in which she described an “underlying sexualized culture in the Canadian Armed Forces (CAF) that is hostile to women and LGBTQ members […],” and called for “broad-scale cultural reform,” among other things. In response, the CAF established “Operation Honour” and
Yesterday, in a much publicized press conference, the RCMP and the federal government announced that they had reached an agreement to settle a class action law suit in which some 500 current and former female RCMP employees claimed that they had been sexually harassed on the job. The agreement is subject to Federal Court approval,
I did this search this morning as an experiment. While not all the cases reported on CanLII[1] dealt with sexual harassment of an employee working a restaurant, many did. By way of a simplistic comparison, the search term “Sexual Harassment and Dentists” yielded 166 results. A quick review of the restaurant cases revealed a number
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