Pregnancy was a explanation in the firing of Winnipeg woman that says her former staff member discriminated versus her, according to a decision released by a Manitoba Human Rights Commission adjudicator.
Adjudicator Scott Dawson discovered that Cindy Dayman, owner of Take Time Cleansing and Way of living Services, possessed considered pregnancy and the requirement for time off as factors in her termination of Andrea Szabo’s employment.
Dayman will certainly have actually to pay loss of $5,000 for “injury to dignity, feelings, or self-respect,” according to a created decision released by the commission.
The decision additionally orders Dayman to pay one more $100 for “economic loss preserved by necessity of a contravention of the [Human Rights] Code.”
As well, she should finish a workshop when it come to office harassment and revise her company’s policies to comply along with the code.
Szabo alleged in a listening to last December that Dayman fired her after she revealed when it come to a business good health kind that she was pregnant. She said her clinical appointments weren’t accommodated and ultimately she was fired.
Dayman was gotten to prevent compiling post that might be made use of “in order to discriminate versus the staff member when it come to the basis of (a) sex, consisting of pregnancy, the chance of pregnancy, or circumstances related to pregnancy.”
She argued that pregnancy possessed not anything to do along with Szabo’s firing and it was customer complaints that led to her termination.
“This sends a clear message to companies that they should understand their responsibilities under The Human Rights Code and ought to stay away from making assumptions concerning pregnancy-related requires in the workplace.” human rights commissioner Diane Dwarka mentioned in the decision.
“companies cannot usage ‘firm reasons’ as justification for otherwise discriminatory decisions.”