Family Status Issues in the Workplace

 by Emond Harden LLP In 2010 the Canadian Human Rights Tribunal released a landmark human rights decision and ruled that “family status”, one of the enumerated grounds of discrimination in human rights legislation, includes the family care obligations of employees (Johnstone v. Canadian Border Services Agency).  Recent decisions in Ontario

Treating Parents Right: Flexibility is Key in Accommodating Family Status

 One of the questions that often arises in workplaces is how far an employer must go to accommodate employees who have child care responsibilities. The law is currently evolving towards a requirement that employers accommodate an employee’s basic childcare obligations to the point of undue hardship. This accommodation can often