Shirley Thiessen v. Peter Thiessen and Dave Thiessen, 2016 HRTO 1662

Human Rights Tribunal of Ontario

B E T W E E N:

Shirley Thiessen

Applicant

-and-

Peter Thiessen and Dave Thiessen

Respondents

DECISION

Adjudicator: Douglas Sanderson

Date: December 22, 2016

Citation: 2016 HRTO 1662

Indexed as: Thiessen v. Thiessen

1This is an Application filed under s. 34 of the Human Rights Code, R.S.O. 1990, c. H.19, as amended (the “Code”), alleging discrimination with respect to employment because of creed and reprisal.

2On October 7, 2016, the Tribunal sent the applicant a Notice of Intent to Dismiss (“NOID”) that advised her that the Application appears to be outside the Tribunal’s jurisdiction because:

• A review of the Application and the narrative setting out the incidents of alleged discrimination fails to identify any specific acts of discrimination within the meaning of the Code allegedly committed by the respondent(s). The Tribunal does not have jurisdiction over general allegations of unfairness unless the unfairness is connected, in whole or in part, to one of the grounds specifically set out in Part I of the Code.

3The Tribunal directed the applicant to file written submissions in response to the NOID by November 7, 2016.

4The NOID warned the applicant that if she did not file written submissions by the specified date, then the Tribunal would make its decision based only on the information in the Application or may consider the failure to respond as an abandonment of the Application and dismiss it for that reason. As of the date of this Decision, the applicant has not filed any submissions in response to the NOID. In the circumstances it appears the applicant has abandoned the Application.

5The Application is dismissed as abandoned.