National Employment Law Project:

Running head: QUESTION 0
EMPLOYMENT LAW
MARCH 24, 2020
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QUESTION 1
The racial discrimination is a situation while the individual is treated less satisfactorily
than other individuals who are in the similar conditions because of the race, colour, ancestry,
national origin or immigrant background. The racial discrimination at workplace has negative
impact on the employees. The employers are rarely held responsible for racial discrimination
(Curtis, et. al, 2017). Moreover, the harassment is a kind of discrimination that regularly takes
place in the workstation. It involves verbal conduct or physical conduct that abuses people based
on secured grounds. Certain illustrations of workplace harassment are the workers makes the
joke regarding colleague because of their colour and religion, and a worker states racist poster or
material at workstation (Yeung & Shen, 2019).
As per the Canadian human rights law, the discrimination in the workplace contains
treating the people or group of people in negative way, on the basis of restricted grounds of
discrimination. The discrimination can be indirect or direct. as well as intentional or
unintentional. It can see that Canada has discrimination problem when it comes to the hiring. The
specific types recorded as prohibited grounds of discrimination differ to some extent from area to
area. For example, under the Ontario Human Rights Code, the most restricted ground of
discrimination is race. In this way, the racial discrimination can differ in forms and how it
establishes in life if people. The example of discrimination at workplace is when the worker is
not allowed time off for the adherence of the religious holidays.
In this way, the people of Canada have the rights to get fair treatment at the workplace.
They have right to be work at the workstation free from the discrimination. Canada has certain
programs as well as legislations to secure the rights. In this relation, the Canadian Human
Rights Act is a broad-accessing piece of law that restricts discrimination as per the ground
of race. Thus, both the labour responsibilities as well as labours of the employees and employers