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Wednesday, 1 July 2015

Is it Discrimination to Pay Bilingual Employees More?

Is it a prohibited form of discrimination to pay a higher salary to employees who can speak both English and French than to those who can speak only English?

In Arnold v. Stream Global Services, 2010 HRTO 424 (CanLII), the Human Rights Tribunal of Ontario said “non”, deciding that paying bilingual workers significantly more than those who spoke exclusively English was not a prohibited form of discrimination.