Top court upholds tribunal decision that harassment from employee of different employer at same workplace is related to employment of victim
Can an employee claim workplace discrimination against an employee from another company? According to the recent Supreme Court of Canada case of British Columbia Human Rights Tribunal v. Schrenk, the answer, in some circumstances, is yes. In Schrenk, the top court found that s. 13(1)(b) of the British Columbia Human Rights Code, which prohibits discriminating against someone “regarding employment,” was not limited to protecting employees from their superiors in the workplace and employers, but, rather, the protection extends to all employees who “suffer discrimination with a sufficient connection to their employment context.”
