This post was co-written by Sabrina English, Trainee Solicitor, Norton Rose Fulbright LLP, London
A recent decision of the Grand Chamber of the European Court of Human Rights has held that an employer had infringed an employee’s rights under Article 8 of the European Convention on Human Rights (the Convention) when it dismissed him for
The changes contained in Bill C-16, An Act to amend the Canadian Human Rights Act and the Criminal Code officially came into force on June 19, 2017.
Introduced in May 2016, Bill C – 16 amends the Canadian Human Rights Act by adding “gender identity or expression” as a prohibited ground of discrimination. This means
The Queensland Supreme Court last month awarded $1,703,530 in damages against an employer, whose Chief Executive Officer’s “unjustified blaming, humiliation, belittling, isolation, undermining and contemptuous disregard” of the plaintiff employee resulted in serious psychiatric injury. The employer was found vicariously liable for the CEO’s actions and to have breached its own duty of care.