HALIFAX—A young black man who was allegedly shot in the back with a nail gun by a co-worker has settled a racial discrimination complaint with his employer. Nhlanhla Dlamini, who is in his early 20s, was injured in a Sept. 19, 2018, incident on a New Glasgow, N.S., construction site that sparked protests and gained national attention. [...]
The former head of Toronto Community Housing is accusing the public housing entity of wrongly firing her in a new statement of claim filed in court. In a 29-page statement filed Monday, Kathy Milsom also alleges that Mayor John Tory promised to “throw (her) under the bus” if the increased spending on a controversial contract [...]
The high-profile case of a female Toronto police officer alleging workplace sexual harassment is now in limbo, after the final hearing dates have been abruptly cancelled in the homestretch of the much-delayed process. Five years after Const. Heather McWilliam filed a complaint to the Human Rights Tribunal of Ontario, McWilliam was told Monday that the [...]
PC government paused implementation last year TORONTO (CP) — Ontario is gathering feedback on legislation aimed at eliminating the gender wage gap, including asking businesses how onerous pay transparency reporting would be. The Progressive Conservative government paused implementation last year of a law from the previous Liberal government that would require all publicly advertised job [...]
Mandalena Lewis claims she was sexually assaulted by a pilot in 2010 and the company protected him, not her WestJet has failed in another bid to quash a proposed class-action lawsuit accusing it of fostering a culture that tolerates harassment of female employees. It stems from a lawsuit filed by ex-flight attendant Mandalena Lewis in 2016. She claims [...]
The University of Toronto is launching an investigation into how its medical students were treated at Southlake Regional Health Centre in the wake of a Globe and Mail probe that revealed gender-discrimination allegations against the hospital’s former emergency department chief. Marko Duic, once hailed as a leader in transforming emergency medicine, resigned his position last [...]
Canada’s largest bricks-and-mortar travel retailer routinely failed to pay employees overtime and created “unlawful barriers” to claiming accurate compensation, according to a proposed class-action lawsuit worth more than $100 million. The suit launched Friday by Toronto-based labour law firm Goldblatt Partners claims Flight Centre, a well-known travel company with 150 stores across Canada, “regularly required” employees to [...]
Forced to live in 'squalid conditions,' pay alleged traffickers large sums of money BARRIE, Ont. (CP) — Police say they have freed 43 "modern day slaves'' from Mexico who were allegedly forced to work as cleaners at a hotel and vacation properties in central and eastern Ontario. Officers with the Ontario Provincial Police (OPP) and [...]
A once-celebrated emergency department chief has resigned his position, five weeks after a Globe investigation revealed allegations from more than 20 doctors relating to gender discrimination and questionable billing practices. Marko Duic didn’t hire a single female physician for 16 years, first as chief of St. Joseph’s Health Centre in Toronto and subsequently as chief of Southlake [...]
Chemist Dave Matthews was awarded $1M, but amount was overturned on appeal ‘The Supreme Court of Canada has agreed to hear the case of a fisheries scientist who argued he was a victim of constructive dismissal by his former employer, Ocean Nutrition Canada Ltd. Chemist Dave Matthews resigned from the fish oil company in 2011 [...]