Human Rights Lawyer Nicole Simes | MacLeod Law Firm https://macleodlawfirm.ca Employment & Labour Lawyers Mon, 05 Jun 2023 19:13:26 +0000 en-US hourly 1 https://wordpress.org/?v=7.0.2 https://macleodlawfirm.ca/wp-content/uploads/2018/08/cropped-MacLeod-Law-Firm-icon-60x60.jpg Human Rights Lawyer Nicole Simes | MacLeod Law Firm https://macleodlawfirm.ca 32 32 Genetic Information and Discrimination https://macleodlawfirm.ca/genetic-information-and-discrimination/ Thu, 09 Jul 2015 12:44:41 +0000 http://www.macleodlawfirm.ca/employees/?p=1475 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 currently protected? Currently, the human rights of employees who work in Ontario for a provincially regulated company are protected by the Ontario Human Rights Code (“Code”).

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