Download or read book Adding Social Condition to the Canadian Human Rights Act written by A. Wayne MacKay and published by . This book was released on 2009 with total page 154 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Download or read book Adding Social Condition to the Canadian Human Rights Act written by E. Richard Shillington and published by . This book was released on 2000 with total page 70 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Download or read book Women and the Canadian Human Rights Act written by Canada. Status of Women Canada and published by Status of Women. This book was released on 1999 with total page 230 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The first report in this compilation examines whether the Canadian Human Rights Act (CHRA) should contain an open-ended clause that would prohibit discrimination on grounds other than those specifically listed in the Act. The second report examines whether, and how, social & economic rights can be effectively protected under the CHRA. It reviews findings & recommendations of United Nations treaty monitoring bodies, studies the issue from a domestic perspective, and considers how new social & economic rights guarantees under the CHRA should be formulated. The third report discusses whether adding "social condition" to the CHRA's grounds of discrimination would provide protection from discrimination occurring because of the negative stereotyping of people with low incomes. The final report analyzes 453 sexual harassment complaints filed by women against both corporate & individual respondents between 1978 and 1993. It examines dispositions, remedies, length of time to case resolution, and the monetary compensation awarded.
Download or read book Social Condition as a Prohibited Ground of Discrimination Under the Canadian Human Rights Act written by A. Wayne MacKay and published by . This book was released on 1999 with total page 167 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Download or read book Canada s Rights Revolution written by Dominique Clément and published by UBC Press. This book was released on 2009-01-01 with total page 295 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: In the first major study of postwar social movement organizations in Canada, Dominique Clément provides a history of the human rights movement as seen through the eyes of two generations of activists. Drawing on newly acquired archival sources, extensive interviews, and materials released through access to information applications, Clément explores the history of four organizations that emerged in the sixties and evolved into powerful lobbies for human rights despite bitter internal disputes and intense rivalries. This book offers a unique perspective on infamous human rights controversies and argues that the idea of human rights has historically been highly statist while grassroots activism has been at the heart of the most profound human rights advances.
Download or read book Employment Equity in Canada written by Carol Agocs and published by University of Toronto Press. This book was released on 2014-07-31 with total page 346 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: In the mid-1980s, the Abella Commission on Equality in Employment and the federal Employment Equity Act made Canada a policy leader in addressing systemic discrimination in the workplace. More than twenty-five years later, Employment Equity in Canada assembles a distinguished group of experts to examine the state of employment equity in Canada today. Examining the evidence of nearly thirty years, the contributors – both scholars and practitioners of employment policy – evaluate the history and influence of the Abella Report, the impact of Canada’s employment equity legislation on equality in the workplace, and the future of substantive equality in an environment where the Canadian government is increasingly hostile to intervention in the workplace. They compare Canada’s legal and policy choices to those of the United States and to the UN Convention on the Rights of Persons with Disabilities, and examine ways in which the concept of employment equity might be expanded to embrace other vulnerable communities. Their observations will be essential reading for those seeking to understand the past, present, and future of Canadian employment and equity policy.
Download or read book Adding social condition to the Canadian Human Rights Act written by and published by . This book was released on 2009 with total page 0 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: In considering the wisdom and feasibility of adding this ground to the Canadian Human Rights Act, it is necessary to analyze the federal, provincial, and international legal landscape in this area, to determine the definitional parameters of the ground, and to address the arguments both for and against the recognition of social condition as a prohibited ground of discrimination. [...] Second, the addition of social condition to the CHRA would build upon the existing infrastructure of the statutory human rights regime and the expertise of the Canadian Human Rights Commission and Tribunal, enabling the resolution of complaints in a more economical way and in a manner that permits a more authentic reflection of the experience of discrimination where multiple grounds are involved. [...] Third, the inclusion of social condition could inform jurisprudential developments in the Charter field, both in the application of equality rights under section 15 of the Charter and in the consideration of broader socio-economic claims, due to the symbiotic relationship between the Charter and human rights codes. [...] We prefer regulations, passed by Cabinet or the responsible Minister on the recommendation of the Commission, in order to establish greater certainty and accountability for the definition of the ground, while ensuring the expertise of the Commission informs the process. [...] The response of the legislative, executive and judicial branches of the Canadian state has not been adequate, in our view, and the addition of the ground of social condition to the CHRA in a controlled and defined way will be one more tool in advancing the rights and interests of those on the margins of Canadian society.
Download or read book The Construction of Statutes written by Elmer A. Driedger and published by Butterworth-Heinemann. This book was released on 1983-01-01 with total page 385 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Download or read book Constitutional Law of Canada written by Peter W. Hogg and published by . This book was released on 2020 with total page pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Download or read book Social Rights Jurisprudence written by Malcolm Langford and published by Cambridge University Press. This book was released on 2009-01-19 with total page 705 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: In the space of two decades, social rights have emerged from the shadows and margins of human rights jurisprudence. The authors in this book provide a critical analysis of almost two thousand judgments and decisions from twenty-nine national and international jurisdictions. The breadth of the decisions is vast, from the resettlement of evictees to the regulation of private medical plans to the development of state programs to address poverty and illiteracy. The jurisprudence not only implicates our understanding of economic, social, and cultural rights, but also challenges the philosophical debates that question whether these rights can and should be justiciable.
Download or read book Communities in Action written by National Academies of Sciences, Engineering, and Medicine and published by National Academies Press. This book was released on 2017-04-27 with total page 583 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: In the United States, some populations suffer from far greater disparities in health than others. Those disparities are caused not only by fundamental differences in health status across segments of the population, but also because of inequities in factors that impact health status, so-called determinants of health. Only part of an individual's health status depends on his or her behavior and choice; community-wide problems like poverty, unemployment, poor education, inadequate housing, poor public transportation, interpersonal violence, and decaying neighborhoods also contribute to health inequities, as well as the historic and ongoing interplay of structures, policies, and norms that shape lives. When these factors are not optimal in a community, it does not mean they are intractable: such inequities can be mitigated by social policies that can shape health in powerful ways. Communities in Action: Pathways to Health Equity seeks to delineate the causes of and the solutions to health inequities in the United States. This report focuses on what communities can do to promote health equity, what actions are needed by the many and varied stakeholders that are part of communities or support them, as well as the root causes and structural barriers that need to be overcome.
Download or read book UN Human Rights Treaty Bodies written by Leena Grover and published by Cambridge University Press. This book was released on 2012-04-16 with total page 491 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: An analysis of the UN human rights treaty bodies, their methods of interpretation, their effectiveness and issues of legitimacy.
Download or read book Human Rights Translated written by Castan Centre for Human Rights Law and published by United Nations Publications. This book was released on 2008 with total page 147 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: "The purpose of this publication is to contribute to [the] process of clarification by explaining universally recognised human rights in a way that makes sense to business. The publication also aims to illustrate, through the use of case studies and actions, how human rights are relevant in a corporate context and how human rights issues can be managed."--Introduction, p. vii.
Download or read book Adding social Condition as a Protected Ground to B C s Human Rights Code written by British Columbia. Office of the Human Rights Commissioner and published by . This book was released on 2020 with total page 23 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Download or read book Charter Equality Rights written by Mary C. Hurley and published by . This book was released on 2005 with total page 0 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Subsection 15(1) of the Canadian Charter of Rights and Freedoms provides that every individual is equal before and under the law and has the right to the equal protection of the law without discrimination and, in particular, without discrimination based on race, national or ethnic origin, colour, religion, sex, age or mental or physical disability. This paper contains a summary review of a number of principles relevant to subsection 15(1) analysis, as determined by the Supreme Court of Canada. It includes a chart setting out the basic elements of the Court's decisions in which the equality rights provision has been raised. Elements include style of cause, nature of challenge, grounds of discrimination, and result.
Download or read book Class and Social Background Discrimination in the Modern Workplace written by Angelo Capuano and published by Policy Press. This book was released on 2023-07-28 with total page 252 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This book exposes how inequalities based on class and social background arise from employment practices in the digital age. It considers instances where social media is used in recruitment to infiltrate private lives and hide job advertisements based on locality; where algorithms assess socio-economic data to filter candidates; where human interviewers are replaced by artificial intelligence with design that disadvantages users of classed language; and where already vulnerable groups become victims of digitalisation and remote work. The author examines whether these practices create risks of discrimination based on certain protected attributes, including ‘social origin’ in international labour law and laws in Australia and South Africa, ‘social condition’ and ‘family status’ in laws within Canada, and others. The book proposes essential law reform and improvements to workplace policy.
Download or read book An Inquiry Into the Norm of Non discrimination in Canada written by Glenn Anthony Patmore and published by Kingston, Ont. : Industrial Relations Centre, Queen's University. This book was released on 1990 with total page 154 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: From the Foreword: The regulation of human rights is becoming an inceasingly important aspect of Canadian industrial relations. A recent expansion of human rights legislation has been given further impetus by the constitutional protection of fundamental rights now provided by Canada's Charter of Rights and Freedoms. A particularly important aspect of this expansion of human rights legislation is its impact on the workplace and the employment relationship. This study traces the evolution of human rights legislation in Canada from its early beginnings up to and including its constitutional entrenchment by the Charter.
