Kashmir Singh v. Olymel, 2013 HRTO 1641

Human Rights Tribunal of Ontario

B E T W E E N:

Kashmir Singh Applicant

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Olymel Respondent

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United Food and Commercial Workers Union, Local 175 Intervenor

INTERIM DECISION

Adjudicator: Ena Chadha Date: September 30, 2013 Citation: 2013 HRTO 1641 Indexed as: Singh v. Olymel

Written Submissions

United Food and Commercial Workers Union, Local 175, Intervenor

Catherine Davis, Representative

1The applicant filed this Application on June 14, 2013, under section 34 of the Ontario Human Rights Code, R.S.O. 1990, c. H.19, as amended (the "Code"), alleging discrimination with respect to employment.

2On September 4, 2013, the United Food and Commercial Workers Union, Local 175 ("the union"), filed a Request to Intervene. The union seeks to intervene in this Application because it is concerned that the allegations address a number of matters that may impact its members and provisions of the Collective Agreement it is seeking to renew with the respondent employer.

3Neither applicant nor respondent filed submissions in response to the union's request to intervene.

4As the Tribunal indicated in Boyce v. Toronto Community Housing Corporation, 2009 HRTO 131:

A union or association nearly always has an interest in a human rights application brought by an employee in a bargaining unit it represents when the application alleges discrimination in employment. Absent exceptional circumstances, the applicant's bargaining agent will be granted intervention status in Tribunal proceedings where it requests it.

5In accordance with the Tribunal's standard practice where an applicant is a member of a bargaining unit represented by a union or association, the union's request to intervene is granted. The style of cause is amended accordingly. The scope of the union's participation in any mediation and/or hearing will be determined by the mediator and/or adjudicator overseeing this matter.

6I am not seized.