Developmentally Disabled Employee Paid Less than Minimum Wage Awarded over $185,000 by the Human Rights Tribunal of Ontario The Employment Standards Act was amended in 1986 to repeal a provision that allowed Employers to pay people with disabilities less than…
Employee's Refusal to Return to Work After being Wrongfully Dismissed Constitutes Failure to Mitigate Ms. Frederickson had been employed with the Company as a dental technician assistant for more than 8.5 years when she was laid off by the Company…
A single mother and cashier at a Tim Horton's store in Thunder Bay suffered from an acute fractured tailbone in a non-work related injury and had been off work for 4 months when she was granted medical clearance to return…
The Ontario Human Rights Tribunal awarded over $19,000 for lost wages and compensation for injury to dignity, feelings and self-respect to an employee who was dismissed from her job during her 8th month of pregnancy. The Tribunal found that the…
In Rubin v. Home Depot Canada Inc., the Plaintiff commenced legal proceedings for wrongful dismissal and claimed that the Release he executed the same day he was terminated should not be enforced under the circumstances. The Plaintiff, who was in…
The Ontario Human Rights Tribunal in Deane v. Ontario (Community Safety and Correctional Services) awarded $7,000.00 to an employee as compensation for the injury to her dignity, feelings and self-respect on account that she was discriminated against on the basis…
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