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Request to remove personal respondent from human rights application granted on consent.
The respondents brought a Request for Order During Proceedings to remove the named personal respondent from the human rights application.
The applicant consented to the removal.
The Tribunal granted the request, finding that the personal respondent was acting within the scope of his duties as a director of the condominium corporation, and that the corporation was deemed liable for his actions under section 45(1) of the Human Rights Code.
Tribunal denies early dismissal and permits applicant to add race-related grounds based on accent discrimination.
The respondent requested the dismissal of an employment reprisal application, arguing it failed to identify a ground of discrimination.
The applicant requested to amend the application to add grounds of race, place of origin, ethnic origin, and ancestry, based on allegations of accent discrimination during training.
The Tribunal denied the dismissal request, finding it was not plain and obvious that it lacked jurisdiction.
The Tribunal granted the amendment request in part, allowing the addition of the new grounds and demographic particulars, but denied the addition of specific particulars regarding a comment made by a deceased employee due to prejudice to the respondent.
Motion granted to amend human rights application to add sex discrimination and add school board as respondent.
The applicant, a Muslim woman who wears a hijab, alleged discrimination on the basis of creed after her employer informed her she could no longer wear her hijab while working at a Catholic school due to a contract change with the school board.
The applicant brought a motion to amend her application to add sex as a ground of discrimination, amend her requested remedies, and add the Catholic school board as a respondent.
The Tribunal granted all three requests, finding the amendments were sought at an early stage and the school board was appropriately added as the entity responsible for the contract terms that led to the alleged discrimination.
Tribunal denies respondents' request to testify via videoconference in human rights hearing involving credibility issues.
The applicant filed a human rights application alleging discrimination and sexual harassment in employment.
In this interim decision, the Tribunal addressed three preliminary requests.
The Tribunal denied the respondents' request to attend the hearing by videoconference from Alberta, finding that financial constraints did not justify departing from the expectation of in-person testimony where credibility is at issue.
The Tribunal granted the applicant's request to amend the corporate respondent's name.
Finally, the Tribunal declined to order the personal respondent to produce text messages, as he claimed the phone was lost or destroyed.
