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By SpringLaw | 3 Minutes Read September 8, 2017

Parental obligations in the workplace

For many of us who are parents, September feels like the real New Year. Workplace issues can arise with respect to shifting childcare obligations, as kids transition from summer schedules to school schedules. Employers may be met with requests to accommodate worker childcare obligations or requests for time off and should be prepared with respect to how to handle these issues both practically and legally.

Article by SpringLaw / Employee Relations, Employment Standards, Human Rights, Payroll / accommodation of family status, childcare obligations, discrimination, discrimination tests, duty to accommodate, employment law, family status, family status test, Ontario Human Rights Code, parental obligations, protected grounds of discrimination, Requests for leaves, unpaid family medical leaves

By SpringLaw | 4 Minutes Read December 9, 2016

Accommodation and when employees don’t engage in the process

The Human Rights Tribunal of Ontario (HRTO) released a very important development on family status discrimination, in a case that intersects with disability accommodation law. In Misetich v Value Village Stores, the tribunal reviewed the caselaw, including the Federal Court of Appeal’s Johnstone case, and clarified its test for accommodating family status requests in the workplace.

Article by SpringLaw / Employee Relations, Human Rights, Union Relations / accommodating family status, accommodation, accommodation process, Disability, disability accommodation law., discrimination, employment law, family status, family status test, Johnstone case, Johnstone test, Misetich v Value Village Stores, undue hardship

By Marie-Yosie Saint-Cyr, LL.B. Managing Editor | < 1 Minutes Read July 9, 2015

Three popular articles this week on HRinfodesk

Three popular articles this week on HRinfodesk deal with major changes to PIPEDA; family status test in Alberta; and termination due to a mental disability.

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