Non-consensual sharing of intimate images grounds for summary dismissal
Can sharing intimate photos of one your coworkers with your friends result in the summary dismissal of your employment for cause?
sexual harassment
Wrongful dismissal update: Judge upholds just cause termination for a 30 year employee who touched a co-workers buttock
After a 10 day trial, an Ontario judge recently concluded that touching a female’s buttock in the presence of four witnesses, who had conflicting versions of what happened, was just cause for termination for an employee with 30 years' service who had a clean disciplinary record.
Fired because of race? Consider a human rights claim
In 2018, a group of eight Caucasian employees of the Spruce Hill Resort and Spa Ltd. (“the Resort”) in British Columbia made a complaint to the British Columbia Human Rights Tribunal (“the Tribunal”), in which they alleged that they had been terminated from their employment because they were not Chinese. The Tribunal found that seven of the employees had been discriminated against on the basis of race and colour, and one employee had been discriminated against on the basis of sex.
