Question

Explain and differentiate the 16 grounds where discrimination is prohibited under human right’s code? and also the implications in canada if the employer breaks the code. ( total words 350 to 500 words). please mention your references !

Human resource management subject.

Answer 1

The sixteen prohibited grounds for discrimination in the human rights code

•        race—common descent or external features such as skin colour, hair texture, facial characteristics

•        ancestry—family descent

•        place of origin—country or region

•        colour—associated with race

•        ethnic origin—social, cultural or religious practices drawn from a common past

•        citizenship—~membership in a state or nation

•        creed—religion or faith

•        sex—discrimination can be sexual in nature, or because of gender or pregnancy. this also includes the right to         breastfeed in public areas or in the workplace. sex also includes the notion of gender identity

•        sexual orientation—includes lesbian, gay, bisexual or heterosexual

•        handicap— {broad category} physical disability or disfigurement caused by injury, illness or birth defect           (includes diabetes, epilepsy, paralysis, amputation, lack of physical coordination, blind­ness or visual impairment, deafness or hearing impairment, muteness or speech impair­ment and reliance on a guide dog, wheelchair or other remedial device); learning disability or any dysfunction in the ability to understand or       use symbols or speech, developmental disability, psychiatric disability or an injury or disability for which       benefits were claimed or received under the workplace safety and insurance act, 1997

•        age—l 8-65 years (employment); 16+ years (accommodation); 18+ years (all other areas)

•        marital status—including cohabitation, widowhood, separation

•        family status—the parent/child relationship

•        same sex partnership status—the status of living with a person of the same sex in a conjugal relationship       outside marriage.

•        record of offences—provincial offences or pardoned federal offences (in employment)

•        receipt of public assistance—in housing only

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If an employer discriminates against an employee in Canada in a way that goes against Canada human rights laws, he or she might be able to make a claim against the employer.

If an employer in Canada is found guilty of breaking the human rights code, the employer would be considered guilty for the violation of the human rights code under the appropriate sections of the Canadian human rights Act.

The Tribunal could order the employer to pay the employee discriminated some compensation in the form of money or a job.

Under some exceptional situations, the employer may lose its license for operation. Sanctions can be imposed on the company.