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Canadian HR Reporter: Worker gets $15,000 for discriminatory investigation – but doesn't get job back

November 4, 2024

Faraz Kourangi provided his analysis of Buckel v St. Joseph’s Healthcare Hamilton, a recent decision from the Human Rights Tribunal of Ontario.

See an excerpt below:

Worker gets $15,000 for discriminatory investigation – but doesn’t get job back

‘The decision to launch the investigation wasn’t based on any discriminatory elements,’ says lawyer looking at case

An employer discriminated against a worker in an investigation into time theft by not considering her disability as a possible cause of some of her absences – although the amount of alleged time theft not related to her disability likely wouldn’t have changed the decision to fire the worker, the Ontario Human Rights Tribunal has ruled.

Read more via Canadian HR Reporter.