In a preliminary award, an Ontario arbitrator allowed covert video surveillance footage to be used as evidence in a wrongful dismissal grievance. The complainant, Mr. Donnelly, was one of three elementary school custodians dismissed for allegedly smoking marijuana, adjacent to school grounds during working hours.
The wrongful dismissal case between Ottawa-Carleton District School Board and
This article was written by Jonathan Jones, a Director at Norton Rose Fulbright South Africa
The Employment Tax Incentive Act, 26 of 2013, which came into effect on 1 January 2014, seeks to reward employers in the private sector for employing young adults, but also contains a hidden pitfall.
In terms of the Act, employers
In Germany, employees may not be treated adversely on the grounds of race, ethnic origin, gender, religion, secular belief, disability, sexual identity or age. Any provisions in agreements which violate the prohibition of adverse treatment are invalid.
Where there has been adverse treatment, the employer is obliged to pay the affected employee compensation unless the
To begin with, employment discrimination on grounds of age is not a problem only for workers in a specific age group in Colombia. For instance, young people feel discriminated against because of their lack of experience when seeking jobs for the first time, and the elderly feel rejected and undervalued when they are interested in
The matter of age discrimination is a particularly sensitive issue in France, where the relatively high unemployment rate of young and aged persons is structural.
In this context, there exist specific legal provisions particularly with regard to the employment of young workers. There is also a national-interprofessional collective bargaining agreement with respect to older workers
Numerous federal, state, and local laws in the US prohibit employers from making employment decisions based on an employee’s or job applicant’s age and thus protecting employees from being discriminated against based on their age.
The Age Discrimination in Employment Act of 1967, also known as the ADEA, is the federal law which prohibits age
Before the Employment Equality (Age) Regulations came into force in 2006, there was no specific protection for employees from discrimination on grounds of age. The law on age discrimination is now set out in the Equality Act 2010 (the Act) which provides for protection from discrimination in the workplace on the grounds of a number
This article was written by Kelly Armstrong, a candidate attorney at Norton Rose Fulbright South Africa
The new amendments to the Employment Equity Act 55 of 1998 (the EEA) assist employers in defending unfair discrimination claims by enabling employers to show that the alleged unfair discrimination is justifiable. Prior to the amendment, an