Employer duty to accommodate

Breastfeeding at work

August 4, 2010 Yosie Saint-Cyr, LL.B. Managing Editor Human Resources, Human Rights

Across Canada, human rights legislation protects people from discrimination and harassment based on sex/gender; this protection includes pregnancy and breastfeeding. It is illegal to discriminate because a woman is pregnant. It is also illegal to discriminate because a woman was pregnant, had a baby or might become pregnant.

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Employer’s duty to accommodate an employee’s illness

July 20, 2010 Earl Altman Human Resources, Human Rights

I am often asked by HR Managers and other supervisory personnel how long an employee can be off work due to illness before he is deemed to have abandoned his position. Many HR people question whether they have to retain the opening indefinitely where there is no reliable prediction as to when an employee will return to work. The issue is important in that…

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