Employment Law Report: Workplace Discrimination in Canadian Context

This report delves into the critical issues of racial discrimination and harassment within the Canadian workplace context. It begins by defining racial discrimination and its impact, highlighting how it can manifest in various forms, including direct and indirect discrimination, as well as harassment. The report emphasizes the legal framework in Canada, referencing the Canadian Human Rights Act and the Ontario Human Rights Code, to illustrate the importance of protecting employee rights. It also discusses the role of employers and the responsibilities they hold to ensure a fair and equitable work environment. The report provides real-world examples and references relevant literature to underscore the significance of addressing and preventing workplace discrimination. It also explores the impact of discrimination on employees, including potential work-related sickness, injuries, or assault. This report aims to increase awareness and encourage the implementation of measures to mitigate risks and promote fair treatment for all employees in Canada.

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

QUESTION 2
within centrally administrated sectors come under the Canada Labour Code (Henry, et. al,
2017). In Canada, the rights of international employees are also secured under territorial labour
law and central labour law. It can say that the intervention to decrease workstation discrimination
as well as harassment can be helpful to reduce risk for the works-related sickness, injuries, or
assault amongst Hispanic employees (Li & Neborak, 2018).

QUESTION 3
References
Curtis, J., Dong, W., Lightman, N., & Parbst, M. (2017). Race, language, or length of residency?
Explaining unequal uptake of government pensions in Canada. Journal of aging & social
policy, 29(4), 332-351.
Henry, F., Dua, E., Kobayashi, A., James, C., Li, P., Ramos, H., & Smith, M. S. (2017). Race,
racialization and Indigeneity in Canadian universities. Race Ethnicity and
Education, 20(3), 300-314.
Li, J., & Neborak, J. (2018). Tax, Race, and Child Poverty: The Case for Improving the Canada
Child Benefit Program (Part II). Journal of Law and Social Policy, 28(1), 67-96.
Yeung, E., & Shen, W. (2019). Diversity climate promises in ideological psychological
contracts: racial differences in responses to breach and fulfilment. European Journal of
Work and Organizational Psychology, 1-17.