Human Rights Grievances under the Public Service Labour Relations Act
Nov 21, 2008
- Race
- National or Ethnic Origin (includes language)
- Colour
- Religion
- Age
- Sex (includes pay equity, pregnancy and child birth)
- Sexual Orientation
- Marital Status
- Family Status
- Physical or Mental Disability (includes past or present dependence on alcohol or drugs)
- Pardoned criminal conviction
- A refusal to employ or to continue to employ a person on the basis of prohibited grounds of discrimination
- Differentiating adversely in the course of employment on the basis of prohibited grounds of discrimination
- Employment practice or policy that deprives or tends to deprive employment opportunities based on a prohibited ground.
- A person cannot be denied a job because of a disability that does not affect job performance or that can be accommodated.
- A job performed mostly by women cannot be paid less than a job of equal value done mostly by men.
- An individual unable to work certain days for religious reasons may not be denied employment unless the employer can demonstrate that it would cause undue hardship.
- Making demeaning comments because of the person’s colour, ethnic origin, age, disability, sex or any of the grounds in an employment or service situation is prohibited under the Act.
- An employer cannot fire an employee in retaliation because he or she has filed a human rights complaint.
- A job may be refused to a person who cannot perform it safely, efficiently and reliably with accommodation. This is called a bona fide occupational requirement.
- An employer can grant workers special leave or benefits in connection with pregnancy or childbirth, or for the care of their children.