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.