Commissioners Victoria Lipnic and Chai Feldblum are co-chairing an anti-harassment task force convening experts from the employer, advocate, and academic communities to identify effective strategies for preventing and
remedying harassment in the workplace.
While the Act obligates employers to have a policy that enables workers to bring complaints forward, and the Board has the authority under section 50 to protect individuals who invoke that procedural right, the Board does not have any general authority to
remedy the underlying
workplace harassment that gave rise to the complaint
in the first place.
As an intervener
in the case, West Coast LEAF will argue that human rights law must recognize and
remedy sexual
harassment and other forms of discrimination as expressions of power that do not necessarily map neatly onto
workplace hierarchies.
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