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Genetic characteristics

By Piccolo Heath LLP | 5 Minutes Read June 11, 2019

Equality when you are born this way … Not the same way

When it comes to employers navigating human resource issues and relationships with their employees, the concept of equal versus identical is even more obvious. For employers, “equal” does not mean the individual employees are all the same, but that they be given the same opportunities.

Article by Piccolo Heath LLP / Employee Relations, Employment Standards, Human Rights / Canadian Human Rights Act, Caster Semenya, discrimination, employment law, gender discrimination, Genetic characteristics, genetic condition, Genetic discrimination, genetically different, Ontario Human Rights Code, prohibited ground of discrimination

By Christina Catenacci, BA, LLB, LLM, PhD | 4 Minutes Read November 5, 2018

Four proposed prohibited grounds of discrimination

On September 26, 2018, a private member’s Bill 35, Human Rights Code Amendment Act, 2018 was introduced and received first reading in the Ontario legislature. The goal of Bill 35 is to add immigration status, genetic characteristics, police records, and social condition as prohibited grounds of discrimination in Ontario’s Human Rights Code.

Article by Christina Catenacci, BA, LLB, LLM, PhD / Employee Relations, Human Rights / employment law, Genetic characteristics, immigration status, Ontario Human Rights Code, police records, prohibited grounds of discrimination, social condition

By Piccolo Heath LLP | 3 Minutes Read August 20, 2018

There’s a tidal shift happening in human rights – Part II are employers ready for Bill 164?

Bill 164 aims to expand the current protection offered by the Ontario Human Rights Code in relation to citizenship, race and place of origin to add immigration status, which will essentially eliminate an employer’s ability to discriminate on the basis of how long someone has been in the country.

Article by Piccolo Heath LLP / Employee Relations, Human Rights / Bill 164, citizenship discrimination, employment law, Genetic characteristics, immigration status, policy record, prohibited grounds of discrimination, social condition

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