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Employer duty to accommodate

By Marie-Yosie Saint-Cyr, LL.B. Managing Editor | 3 Minutes Read August 4, 2010

Breastfeeding at work

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.

Article by Marie-Yosie Saint-Cyr, LL.B. Managing Editor / Human Rights / Breastfeeding, discrimination, duty to accommodate, Employer duty to accommodate, Fair Labor Standards Act, gender, harassment, human rights commission, human rights legislation, human rights tribunal, pregnancy, sex, undue hardship

By Earl Altman | 3 Minutes Read July 20, 2010

Employer’s duty to accommodate an employee’s illness

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...

Article by Earl Altman / Human Rights / Disability, duty to accommodate, Employee illness, employee return to work, Employer duty to accommodate, employment standards, frustration of employment contract, human rights, Job abandonment, Return to work, termination, undue hardship, wrongful dismissal

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