Sick or Quit: Did the Employee Abandon his Job? Disability Accommodation When an employee suffers from a disability, under the Ontario Human Rights Code an employer has a duty to accommodate that employee to the point of undue hardship. During the accommodation...
Genetic Information and Discrimination On June 9, 2015, Peter MacKay, the then Minister of Justice and Attorney General of Canada announced legislative changes aimed at protecting Canadians from discrimination on the basis of genetic information. What Rights are...
Do employers need to accommodate employees who smoke? In a blog last year, we addressed the issue of whether smoking was a disability and the relationship between smoking and employee human rights. To date, we have not yet seen a human rights decision specifically...
Is Smoking a Disability? IS SMOKING A DISABILITY? Recently, several major newspapers have released articles questioning whether an employer can refuse to hire an employee because he or she is a smoker. This raises an interesting question about what health issues are...