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Tag : Discrimination; Family Status; Accommodation; Employment Law; Ontario Human Rights Code

Discrimination and Family Care Obligations

The obligation to accommodate family status was initially viewed narrowly. An employer couldn’t discriminate because a worker was a parent. A woman with eight (8) children was equally entitled to be promoted as a man with a stay-at-home wife. Over the years the term family status has matured not only to include the freedom from discrimination because of being a parent but also to include accommodation of parental care obligations.