Ontario Employer Ordered to Pay Substantial Damages for Unilaterally Revoking an Employee’s Family Status Accommodations
A recent decision by the Human Rights Tribunal of Ontario (the “Tribunal”) illustrates that employers must not unilaterally revoke reasonable accommodations
The Employer’s Duty to Accommodate: Is Masturbating at Work Cause for Dismissal?
Employers have the duty to accommodate employees based on protected grounds under human rights legislation. This duty to accommodate often has implications where the employee has committed misconduct that leads the employer to wish to end the employment relationship, but doing so could be discriminatory because of a protected ground, often disability. In a recent […]
Clarifying Accommodation: What Are Employers Required to Do?
Accommodation is often a complex and challenging subject for employers to navigate.
Frustration of Contract and an Employee’s Duty to Provide Medical Documentation to the Employer
The doctrine of frustration of contract is one which many employers struggle with
Religious Accommodation in the Workplace: a Clarification for Employers
When Kim Davis, an elected clerk in Rowan County, Ky., refused to sign a gay couple’s marriage license in August, she may well have known the move would be provocative. What she couldn’t predict was how that act of defiance would put her at the centre of an ongoing debate over religious freedom.