HUMAN RIGHTS TRIBUNAL OF ONTARIO
B E T W E E N:
Chaoming (Henry) Liao
Applicant
-and-
University Health Network and Darrell Galang
Respondents
INTERIM DECISION
Adjudicator: Judith Keene
Indexed as: Liao v. University Health Network
WRITTEN SUBMISSIONS
Chaoming (Henry) Liao, Applicant
Self-represented
Introduction
1This is an Interim Decision in respect of an Application filed on December 29, 2009 under section 34 of Part IV of the Human Rights Code, R.S.O. 1990, c. H.19, as amended (the “Code”), alleging discrimination with respect to employment because of disability. It appears from the material filed to date that the subject of the Application is the issue of accommodation needs created by a workplace injury which the parties agree occurred in or around February of 2008.
2In a previous Interim Decision, (2010 HRTO 1348), the Tribunal deferred this Application, pending the resolution of a grievance.
REQUEST TO REACTIVATE
3On October 29, 2012, the applicant filed a Request for an Order that the Application be reactivated under Rule 14.3, copied to the respondent and attaching a number of documents including copies of e-mail correspondence and a copy of signed Minutes of Settlement dated October 28, 2011. The Minutes of Settlement refer to a grievance and indicate that the grievance has been withdrawn.
4The Tribunal has not received a Response to the applicant’s Request, and the time for doing so has elapsed.
5In view of the above, the Application will be reactivated.
REQUEST TO ADD A PERSONAL RESPONDENT
6The applicant has also requested that a named personal respondent be added to the Application. It appears that this individual is a successor in the position of Director of Human Resources to the previously-named personal respondent, who apparently is no longer employed by the corporate respondent.
7The applicant has not identified how the individual he wishes to add as a respondent is involved in the allegations at issue in the Application. At this point is premature to deal with this request, and it is dismissed without prejudice to the applicant raising it later in the proceedings.
ORDER
8The Application will proceed. The parties have agreed to attempt mediation. They will be contacted by the Registrar’s Office in due course.
9I am not seized.
Dated at Toronto, this 22nd day of January, 2013.
“Signed by”
Judith Keene
Vice-chair