transgendered

Gender identity and access to women’s washroom facilities

Would it be discriminatory to prohibit a pre-operative, male-to-female transsexual from entering a women’s washroom? The answer should be of interest to any employer or business offering services or accommodation to the public. (In PDF)

Performance review must take into consideration a person’s disability

An employer discriminated against an employee when a manager negatively evaluated the employee without considering how the employee’s disability, type II diabetes, affected the employee’s performance. Unfortunately, this appraisal formed the basis for termination…

Events leading up to human rights complaint were relevant

The Canadian Human Rights Tribunal just dismissed a motion by an employer to limit the tribunal’s inquiry surrounding an employee’s human rights complaints based on the grounds of race and national/ethnic origin and retaliation.