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ethnic diversity

By Marie-Yosie Saint-Cyr, LL.B. Managing Editor | 4 Minutes Read March 2, 2012

When statutory holidays are also religious holidays

Every year we get comments from subscribers around the Christmas and Good Friday holidays about why Canada still uses these Christian religious holidays as statutory (public) holidays when they are trying to promote an image of multiculturalism. I am anticipating the same comments as Good Friday approaches...

Article by Marie-Yosie Saint-Cyr, LL.B. Managing Editor / Employment Standards, Human Rights / Christmas, Commission scolaire régionale de Chambly v. Bergevin, discrimination, duty to accommodate, employment law, employment standards act, ethnic diversity, Good Friday, Holidays, holy days, Markovic v. Autocom Manufacturing Ltd., Meiorin, multiculturalism, non-Christian holidays, Ontario Human Rights Code, Policy on Creed and the Accommodation of Religious Observances, reasponable accommodation, religious accommodation, religious discrimination, Religious holidays, religious observance, Tratnyek, undue hardship, Yom Kippur

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