Human Rights

The Provincial human Rights codes provide that every person has a right to equal treatment with respect to employment without discrimination based on race, ancestry, place of origin, color, ethnic origin, citizenship, creed, sex, age, a record of offenses, marital status, family status, sexual orientation or handicap. Similarly, the Canadian Human Rights Act prohibits employment practices by federal undertaking that discriminate on essentially the same prohibited grounds.

Under federal law, five areas of prohibited discriminatory practices are identified:

Discriminatory hiring or treatment in the course of employment
Discriminatory employment applications, advertisements or inquiries
Discriminatory membership practices by employee organizations
Discriminatory policies or agreements by employee or employer organizations
And maintenance of gender-based wage differentials