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Showing posts with label Sexual Harassment. Show all posts
Showing posts with label Sexual Harassment. Show all posts
Tuesday, 28 December 2021

Divisional Court Finds Ottawa City Council Displayed Reasonable Apprehension of Bias Against Councillor Rick Chiarelli with Respect to Complaints to Integrity Commissioner

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In the period September to November 2019, six complaints were filed against Ottawa City Councillor Richard Chiarelli with the Integrity Co...
Thursday, 5 August 2021

Complainant in Sexual Assault Claim Compellable as Employer’s Representative on Examinations for Discovery in Wrongful Dismissal Claim

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Is it “oppressive” to compel an unwilling complainant in a sexual assault and harassment matter to be examined for discovery when he is no...
Thursday, 12 November 2020

Refusing to Apologize for Inappropriate Comments Not Cause for Dismissal

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Is refusing to apologize to a co-worker, after a company’s finding of your having made inappropriate comments to that co-worker cause for ...
Friday, 15 November 2019

Non-Consensual Sharing of Intimate Images Grounds for Summary Dismissal

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Can sharing intimate photos of one your coworkers with your friends result in the summary termination of your employment for cause? In a...
Friday, 7 December 2018

Top Five Cases of Importance to Ontario Employment Law - 2018 Edition

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2018 has been, compared to some other years, relatively quiet with respect to employment law jurisprudence. Sometimes that can be a good ...
Sunday, 18 November 2018

Employee Allowed to Sue for Sexual Harassment Five Years After Signing Full and Final Release

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Can an employee sue her former supervisor for sexual harassment if she has signed a Full and Final Release in favour of her former employ...
Sunday, 19 August 2018

Assessment of Damages in Sexual Assault Cases

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What is a reasonable assessment of damages in a civil case of sexual assault? Is the fact that a perpetrator of sexual assault has not be...
Friday, 15 June 2018

Employers’ Vicarious Liability for Sexual Assault

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“Is a taxi company liable for a sexual assault allegedly committed by one of its drivers, absent any fault on its part?” That was the qu...
Friday, 16 February 2018

Workplace Harassment “Arises From” but does not “Relate To” Employment

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Does workplace harassment simply “arise from and in the course of” an employee’s employment, or does it actually “relate to” that employme...
Tuesday, 18 April 2017

Ontario Superior Court Says that You Cannot Sue for the Tort of Sexual Harassment

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Is the tort of sexual harassment a recognized cause of action in the Province of Ontario? Put another way, in Ontario, can you sue in cou...
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Saturday, 20 June 2015

HRTO Awards $150,000 to Temporary Foreign Worker following Sexual Assault by Employer

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The Human Rights Tribunal of Ontario ordered an employer to pay $150,000.00 to a former temporary foreign worker after finding that the o...
Sunday, 30 November 2014

The Scope of the Employer's Duty to Investigate Sexual Harassment Complaints

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To what extent must an employer investigate allegations of sexual harassment? This question comes to the fore as a result of a recent epi...