Canada is the country that allow many workers who come different countries around the world to work here. It may less discrimination because this country have more multi-culture in one country. In the reality, still have the discrimination in the workplace, so the Canada government provided the right of employment in organization in the law. According to Canadian Human Rights Commission (2013) “the discrimination is an action or a decision that treats a person or a group negatively for reasons such as their race, age or disability” (n.p.). For example, some organization does not accept woman candidate because she is pregnant, but she is qualify in the job position. It leads to discrimination based on ground sex. When worker who face with the …show more content…
kind of situation, they can show their voice to Canadian Human Right Commission. It is more importance to enact in the Canada employment human right. The employment human right helps them to understand their right, have an equal between foreigner employees and local employees. Employers have to respect the dignity of their employee and the right helps to protect employees’ right. Canadian Human Right commission suggested (2013) that there have 11 ground of discriminations which contained race, national or ethnic, color, religion, age, sex, sexual orientation, marital status, family status, disability and a record suspended (n.p.). For a sexual harassment can occur both female and male, but usually more occur to female employees than male in organizations.
From the research of PR Newswire found that “Twenty-five percent of female workers have experienced discrimination or unfair treatment in the workplace, and 17 percent said they have felt sexually harassed by a fellow employee or manager” (n.d.).The sexual harassment is one of ground discrimination that must proscribe in work area. United Nation defined that the meaning of “sexual harassment is a behavior [and a] defined as unwelcome behavior of a sexual nature” (n.d.,n.p.). For example, a man in a department take liberties woman in organization or say something that she feel uncomfortable and feel harassed. From the real situation which happen in 2011, BC Human Right Tribunal (2011) disclosed that a male supervisor did sexually harassed to his young girl worker. First, she complained this to her employer. After she complained, this man sent the inappropriate comments and threatened in her job. Then, she complained again, but “the employer terminated her employment, as it was easier to remove a short-term employee than deal with the supervisor’s conduct” (pp.13-14). This situation showed a discriminatory practice in the ground sex and in section 14.2 sexual harassment. When people face the sexual harassment in the organization, they feel uncomfortable and will affect to their performance in work. Sometimes, some people quit their job because of this …show more content…
situation. Employer must deal to the situation more than ignore it. The employment commission helps this employee can continue their work also believe in their pride. In Human Rights Commission (n.d.) “Discriminatory practices related to pregnancy, such as negative treatment, refusal to hire or promote, termination of employment, or harassment, are against the law under the Act” (p.
4). The gravidity discrimination is a structure of sex discrimination. In BC Human Right Tribunal disclosed that one of a front office candidate in a family company was refuse to hire her because she was pregnant (2006,p.14). It is a discriminatory practice in proscribed discrimination and refuse to employ in the section 3.2 and 7. For example, in interview period, interviewer ask woman candidate do you to have a baby, our company do not want the cost of maternity leave. This one is also discriminate in pregnancy. When candidate is qualify into the job, they should be select from among of other candidates and must not unselect because woman candidate have a plan to have children. When people were hire from the company, the company cannot reject the qualify candidate which only the reason they are pregnant. The employment right can protect the right of the pregnancy workers to have the
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Canadian workplaces today seem to be a fairly diverse place, with a blend of many religions, ethnicities, and genders present. However, although people preach affirmative action and melting pots in current times, many inequality and power issues still abound. One strikingly noticeable example is gender discrimination. Women in the workforce face many challenges like smaller wages, harassment, male privilege in hiring or promotions, and lack of support when pregnant or raising children. One half of the planet is women, and it can be assumed the same for Canada, but they still face judgment at work because they lack the authority to dispute against big corporations or even their male supervisor. It cannot be argued that Canadian women’s status has worsened over the past hundred years, of course, thanks to feminism and activism. However, their status is not as high as it could be. Women as a group first started fighting for workplace equality during the second wave of feminism, from the 1960s to the 1990s. Legislation was approved during the second wave to try to bring gender equality to the workplace. Feminists both collided and collaborated with unions and employers to ensure women received fair treatment in an occupation. Quebec had the same issues, only the province approached the conflict differently than English Canada with its own unique viewpoint. It became clear that women were entering the workplace and did not plan on leaving. Second-wave feminism in Canada shifted power from the government and businesses to women in order to try to bring equality, although the discrimination never completely disappeared.
Employment discrimination includes unequal treatment in employment decisions, opportunities, hiring and firing, compensation, promotion done by the supervisor and management on the basis of nurses’ race, origin, color, religion and language (Walani, 2015). In some cases even the patients refuge to be treated from a nurse with certain ethnic or national background. In Primeau’s study (2014), one IEN reports that a patient denied her care and said, “I don’t want to be treated by a terrorist”. Moreover, immigrant nurses are often employed in less desirable areas, lower positions and are excluded from the opportunities which could promote them easily to higher positions ((Li, 2014). Discrimination is not only unethical but also an illegal practice at any workplace. However, sometimes the IENs themselves acknowledge that they have less confidence and take inequality for granted. So, they do not report some cases of discrimination. Moreover, even the colleagues, patients and families treat the IENs with aggression, resentment, less trust and uncooperative manner (College of Nurses of Ontario [CNO], 2007). Sometimes, the coworkers intentionally misunderstand and underestimate the IENs’ education and skills and bully them (Kingma, 2007). A study by Hagey shows that immigrant black nurses also face racial discrimination in nursing employment in Canada (2001).
Systemic discrimination has been a part of Canada’s past. Women, racial and ethnic minorities as well as First Nations people have all faced discrimination in Canada. Policies such as, Charter of Rights and Freedoms, provincial and federal Human Rights Codes, as well has various employment equity programs have been placed in Canada’s constitution to fight and address discrimination issues. Despite these key documents placed for universal rights and freedoms Aboriginal and other minority populations in Canada continue to be discriminated against. Many believe there is no discrimination in Canada, and suggest any lack of success of these groups is a result of personal decisions and not systemic discrimination. While others feel that the legislation and equality policies have yet resulted in an equal society for all minorities. Racism is immersed in Canadian society; this is clearly shown by stories of racial profiling in law enforcement.
During the 19th century Aboriginal people faced a whole lot of discrimination in Canada, their beliefs and culture were considered to be ill-advised, this led to residential schools being opened for Aboriginal kids. When understanding residential schools it is important to look at the cultural impact it left with kids. Dr. Duncan Campbell Scott once declared, “I want to get rid of the Indian problem. I do not think as a matter of fact, that the country ought to continuously protect a class of people who are able to stand alone… Our objective is to continue until there is not a single Indian in Canada that has not been absorbed into the body politic and there is no Indian question, and no Indian Department, that is the whole object of this Bill.”(Twentieth- Century Education for Native Americans…)This is what sparked the entire problem with Indians and how residential schools came about. But, to what extent was the purpose of Residential schools rooted in cultural misunderstanding of Aboriginals. I will be looking into the purpose of residential schools being instated, activities that went on in residential schools and the impact left on families because of residential schools.
Racial discrimination in the workplace has been a persistent theme in Canada’s history as well as present-day times. The occurrence of actions and attitudes that impose a sense of one being less equal than another on the basis of one’s race in Canada’s workplace inhibits both our nation’s ability to move forward as well as strengthen unification within our country. The belief in a more egalitarian society, where one’s race and ethnic background have little to no impact on employees (or potential employees) standings within the job market, would seemingly be reinforced by the majority of Canadians, who consistently show support for Canada’s multicultural identity. Couple that with the noticeable strides Canada has made in the past several decades through legislation, in order to eliminate discriminatory practices and actions within the workplace, and one would likely assume that racial discrimination within the workplace is largely a concern of the past. However, current research supports the argument that the level of which racial discrimination occurs today is increasing, and as such it persists to be a key problem in the current workplace of the nation. In the workplace, racial discrimination is often seen with regard to uneven access to jobs, unfair selection and promotion criteria (as well as access to the means in order to meet this criteria), and workplace harassment. This paper compares similar findings of two articles; the first, Racial inequality in employment in Canada, as was published in the Canadian Public Administration (CPA), and the second, What Are Immigrants’ Experiences of Discrimination in the Workplace?, published by the Toronto Immigrant Employment Data Initiative (TIEDI).
In conclusion, it will be beneficial to eradicate all forms of racism and discrimination. People should not be judged by their ethnicity, age, sexual orientation, religion and their cultural background. Each person is unique in his or her way and that makes Canada an amazing and diverse country. The ability to learn from different cultures at a workplace or while socializing can open up people's minds to new morals, beliefs and practices. People with different ethnicity, culture and religion could bring a lot of positive ideas for the companies they work in. Individuals who interact with people from different cultures become more aware and knowledgeable about their surroundings and can become more open minded.
Analysis on gender discrimination reveals that gender plays a discouraging factor in the employment of women. Throughout history men and women have been segregated into two separate sectors of employment "male" and "female." Historically, humans have witnessed various acts of fallacious imperialism that is often imposed upon groups of people based on ethnicity, skin completion and, gender. One without any socially constructed knowledge of gender would pose the question can someone really be denied employment based on gender? The answer when taking in consideration the social and empirical notions that are prevalent in society the answer would unfortunately yes, they can and have been denied historically based on gender. Various acts and interventions in efforts of alleviating the dilemma concerning employment inequalities have included a better labor market and suggestions of educational opportunities were also believed to provide a remedy to the entire crisis.
Employers, managers, and Human Resources professionals must be aware of potential pregnancy discrimination issues in their organization. They need to be aware of these issues before they even arise. It is almost certain that an organization will deal with pregnancy discrimination issues, especially with more women obtaining careers. It is important to remember that pregnant employees are entitled to the same rights as non-pregnant employees. It is important for companies to promote equal employment opportunities for women. They need to guarantee them the right to contribute equally in the workplace without punishing them for exercising their right to have a family.
They can dismissal the employee if it not related to pregnancy. The company must provide justification about why she was dismissed. In Yvette Wratten case, her boss when he fired her. That mean it was not justification truthful or reliable. The boss should show her report to the court to prove that she was deserve to dismissed from the job. But he did not show the exactly report to the court it was only just speak without any proof. The boss should be taking action necessary before be knowing of her pregnancy, to show it was not the reason of her dismissed from work. But he did the opposite. He did not have any sufficient and convincing evidence. The Canadian law for human rights prevent discrimination related to pregnancy. Refusal to work,
Abstract- Racial discrimination happens all the time and most of us are unaware of it. The most common place for this to happen is in the workplace. Now people can be discriminated against because of their race, religion, or any other numerous things. Also, discrimination can occur during the job interview or even after you got the job. This paper will shoe the effects of racial discrimination and how it can be prevented. In addition there are some very important laws that deal specifically with discrimination, like the NAACP or Affirmative Action. These both will be discussed.
Gender discrimination is treating individuals in a different way in their employment because of their sex. Person who have been experiencing this kind of discrimination may have been rejected for employment. Employer who provides different working conditions such as salaries, positions or bonus to women and men are ...
Every employee wants maximise their salaries and benefits based on particular skills and the rewards available in different employment. Most employees also want to continue their employment (ACCA F9). However, when sexual discrimination was happened in a company, there...
Harassment and discrimination claims are due to lack of education about the subject. As an independent human resources consultant, Santiago-Santos will organize a local education campaign and provide employers with different trainings to educate them and their employees about harassment and discrimination. Employers will have a better understanding on how to develop internal policies and procedures to address these claims. Also, trainings will be provided for employees and they will be educated on how to prevent and identify harassment and discrimination as well as what steps to take in order to report such behavior.
There are many forms of discrimination such as age, disability, transgender, and sex discrimination. This paper will focus on discrimination based on gender, race and age in the workplaces. All over the world, we hear about people treating each other prejudicially depending on their background, ethnicity, or sex orientation. Workplaces should be free from all personal biases but unfortunately, we hear about employees being discriminated against, almost, on a daily basis. Workplace discrimination can be described as treating an individual or a group of people differently than others.
Sexual harassment in the workplace is a huge problem in recent history. It can happen to anyone and it can happen everywhere. It can affect all types of races, gender and age. Statistics today shows that more and more sexual harassment has become an issue due to the large number of cases presented. Mainstream media becomes consume covering sexual harassment because of the high profile cases. Sexual harassment becomes a topic on various TV shows, and on some major morning radio talk shows mostly everyday. Sexual harassment laws must be strengthened in order to fix what has become a serious problem today in the workplace.