Mujawayesu v. Loblaws Supermarket Limited, 2014 HRTO 459

Human Rights Tribunal of Ontario

B E T W E E N:

Charlotte Mujawayesu

Applicant

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Loblaws Supermarkets Limited, Sam Spataro, Tony Bianci and Domenic Giacci

Respondents

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United Food and Commercial Workers Canada Local 1000A

Intervenor

INTERIM DECISION

Adjudicator: Maureen Doyle
Date: Apruil 9, 2014
Citation: 2014 HRTO 459
Indexed as: Mujawayesu v. Loblaws Supermarket Limited

WRITTEN SUBMISSIONS

United Food and Commercial Workers Canada, Local 1000A, Intervenor

Ryan White, Counsel

1This Application alleges discrimination with respect to employment because of race, colour, ancestry, place of origin, ethnic origin and disability contrary to the Human Rights Code, R.S.O. 1990, c. H.19, as amended (the "Code").

2The applicant's union, United Food and Commercial Workers Canada, Local 1000A (the "union") filed a request to intervene in this Application.

3The parties have not filed submissions indicating whether they consent or object to the union participating as an intervenor and the time for doing so has now passed.

4The Tribunal stated 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.

5I am satisfied the union has an interest in the outcome of this Application and I am not aware of any exceptional circumstances which would cause me to deviate from the Tribunal's usual practice. Accordingly, the union is granted intervenor status. The extent of the union's participation as an intervenor in future proceedings in this matter will be determined by the Vice-chair or Member who presides over those proceedings.

6I am not seized.