The Court concluded that in order to establish prima
facie discrimination on the basis of family status, a claimant must show:
Applying the newly - articulated test to Ms. Johnstone, the Court upheld the Tribunal's conclusion that she had made out a case of prima
facie 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.
Thus, Ms. Seeley's specific parental childcare obligations and CNR's response to her request for an extension to address possible options all resulted in prima
facie discrimination on the basis of family status (Seeley at para 95).
Not exact matches
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.
Cases such as this largely depend
on their particular facts, although the board did rely
on the principles set out by the Federal Court
of Appeal's Johnstone decision to determine whether there was a prima
facie case
of discrimination based on 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: