No discrimination if worker doesn’t give reason for accommodation

Ontario worker’s injury-related shift change interfered with custody arrangement for daughter, but he didn’t tell his employer until after change

No discrimination if worker doesn’t give reason for accommodation
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It’s a standard tenet of accommodation that it is a two-way street — both the employer and the employee must participate in the process. That’s why the Ontario Human Rights Tribunal dismissed a worker’s complaint that his family status wasn’t accommodated by an injury-related shift change schedule — the worker didn’t inform his employer of his family status obligations until after the change had been made.

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