Amandi Esonwanne

The applicant filed a human rights application alleging discrimination and failure to accommodate by his employer.

The employer sought to defer the application pending the outcome of concurrent grievance arbitration proceedings.

The union, which had carriage of the grievances, indicated it would not advance the human rights claims at arbitration.

The Tribunal declined to defer the application, finding that because the human rights issues would not be adjudicated in the grievance process, deferral was not appropriate.