The Court held that the Board further erred by attributing human rights protection to all family - related leave permitted under the collective agreement, contrary to the Federal Court's earlier identification of the following four factors to
establish discrimination on the basis of family status related to family responsibilities:
But this — and potentially the test — changed in 2017: two Ontario Human Rights Tribunal decisions, Misetich v. Value Village Stores Inc. and subsequently Ananda v. Humber College Institute of Technology & Advanced Learning, dealt with that issue — and flat - out rejected the notion that the test for
establishing discrimination on the basis of family status differs from the test in the case of any other protected ground for several reasons, including:
Not exact matches
The Court concluded that in order to
establish prima facie
discrimination on the
basis of family status, a claimant must show:
In finding that the applicant had not been discriminated against
on the
basis of sex or
family status the Honourable Justice Johanne Trudel directed her attention to the four factors necessary to
establish a prima facie case
of discrimination on the
basis of family status.
Arbitrators and other decision - makers have applied different approaches to
establishing prima facie
discrimination on the
basis of family status.
There, in upholding a Canadian Border Services Agency worker's claim
based on a work schedule that conflicted with her childcare obligations, the Federal Court
of Appeal determined that to
establish discrimination on a prima facie
basis on the ground
of family status in relation to childcare, it would be necessary for an individual to show that: