Is it a discriminatory act to ask someone applying for employment whether he or she is legally eligible to work in Canada on a permanent basis?
If the answer to that question is “yes”, then what is the effect of an applicant repeatedly lying about the answer.
In a series of decisions spanning a number of years from the Human Rights Tribunal of Ontario, the answers to those questions were “yes” and “not much.”
Is “being reckless with the truth” as to whether a client has insurance coverage “just cause” for the termination of an insurance broker’s employment?
That was one of the questions that the Honourable Mr. Justice Ronald M. Laliberte Jr. was asked to resolve in the case of Cassell v. Irving H. Miller Limited, 2016 ONSC 5570.
Although the employer felt very strongly about having just cause for termination, Mr. Justice Laliberte saw things differently.
