anti-discrimination

A Canadians with Disabilities Act would be great wouldn’t it?

November 27, 2015 Christopher Lytle MA CDS Accessibility Standards, Employee Relations, HR Policies and Procedures, Human Resources, Human Rights, International HR Law

Even before the ratification of the UN Convention on the Rights of Persons with Disabilities, there was real thought being put into the potential development of a Canadians with Disabilities Act. It began with the structuring of the International Day of Persons with Disabilities and has found its permanence with other large scale developments such as the development of UN policy and focus on the inclusion of people with disabilities.

accessibility, Accessibility for Ontarians with Disabilities Act, anti-discrimination, AODA, Canadian Disability Policy Alliance, Canadians with Disabilities Act, International Day of Persons with Disabilities, short-term disability, the inclusion of people with disabilities, UN Convention on the Rights of Persons with Disabilities

Do you need a transgender policy?

October 5, 2015 Michele Glassford Employee Relations, HR Policies and Procedures, Human Resources, Human Rights, Privacy and Security, Recruiting and Hiring, Training and Development, Union Relations

The recent well-publicized transgender celebrities, and Emmy wins for the Amazon show Transparent, have put gender identity, gender expression, transsexual and transgender issues on the social and political agenda. Most employers should already have general anti-discrimination, anti-harassment and accommodation policies recognizing protected human rights grounds. So if an employer doesn’t have a transsexual or transgender employee, how important is it to have a specific policy dealing with transsexual, transgender, gender identity and gender expression? For some employers, it may be essential.

Accommodation on the Basis of Gender Expression and Gender Identity, anti-discrimination, anti-harassment, discrimination on the basis of gender identity or gender expression, duty to accommodate, employment law, gender expression, gender identity, HR Law, Human Resources PolicyPro, human rights tribunals, protected human rights grounds, transgender policy, transsexual and transgender