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OHRC and HRPA webinar on preventing sexual harassment at work

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OHRC and HRPA webinar on preventing sexual harassment at work

Preventing sexual harassment at work

July 07, 2015 at 12:00 pm

30 minutes

OHRC and HRPA webinar on preventing sexual harassment at work for HR professionals.

English

Sexual Harassment Awareness Week June 1 – 7, 2015

June 1, 2015

The Ontario Human Rights Commission (OHRC) is pleased to mark Sexual Harassment Awareness Week. Sexual harassment continues to be a critical issue across Ontario society. Recent news coverage of incidents affecting female reporters while on the job highlights the pervasiveness of the problem for women at work. The OHRC has long recognized the serious impact of sexual harassment on its victims, and on an organization’s morale and overall productivity.

Message from Ruth Goba – Statement on International Women’s Day

March 6, 2015

Forty years ago, the United Nations declared March 8 as International Women’s Day. It is a day to celebrate women and their achievements, reflect on the progress towards equality, and promote an Ontario and world where there is true gender equality.

While we join the world in observing this day and honouring our mothers, wives, sisters, daughters, allies and friends, we know that we still have work to do at the Ontario Human Rights Commission.

Our work is not done when one in two Canadian women report having experienced some form of violence in their lifetime.

Position Statement – Discrimination on the basis of sex in recruitment for the Seasonal Agricultural Workers Program

December 10, 2014

It has come to the Ontario Human Rights Commission’s attention that employers in Ontario are hiring almost exclusively men to work on their farms as part of the Seasonal Agricultural Worker Program (SAWP). Research shows us that each year, less than 4% of the workers that come to Ontario through the SAWP are women.

Preventing sexual harassment at work: An overview

Webinar Information

Preventing sexual harassment at work: An overview

Sexual harassment at work

December 10, 2014 at 11:00 am

40 minutes

Overview on preventing sexual harassment at work, with Q&A.

English

Updated Policy on preventing discrimination because of pregnancy and breastfeeding

October 28, 2014

Toronto – The Ontario Human Rights Commission (OHRC) released an updated version of its Policy on preventing discrimination because of pregnancy and breastfeeding in an eLaunch today.

An hour-long webinar – available at www.ohrc.on.ca – provides an overview of the policy, offers a Q&A opportunity, and features several speakers.

Policy on preventing discrimination because of pregnancy and breastfeeding

October 2014 - This policy sets out the OHRC’s position on discrimination based on pregnancy and breastfeeding at the time of publication. It deals primarily with issues that fall within the jurisdiction of the Ontario Code, and which can form the subject matter of a human rights claim. At the same time, the policy interprets the protections of the Code in a broad and purposive way, consistent with the principle that the quasi-constitutional status of the Code requires that it be given a liberal interpretation that best ensures its anti-discriminatory goals are met.

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