Employment

Case	Description	Year	Facta
Honda v. Keays	This case involved a claim by a disabled employee that he was wrongfully dismissed from his employment by Honda Canada. LEAF intervened in the case to address the issue of discrimination and harassment in the workplace...	2008
Health Services and Support – Facilities Subsector Bargaining Assn. v. British Columbia	At issue in the case is whether the British Columbia government's Health Services Delivery Improvement Act (Bill 29), which voids equality related provisions of existing collective agreements of the female dominated health care sector, violates section 15 of the Charter...	2007
Newfoundland and Association of Public Employees v. Newfoundland Pay Equity	In October 2004, the Supreme Court of Canada unanimously accepted LEAF's arguments in NAPE (Newfoundland Association of Public Employees) v. Newfoundland that the Newfoundland government discriminated against female workers by paying them unequal wages...	2004
Lesiuk v. Canada	This case dealt with the constitutionality of eligibility criteria for employment benefits available under the federal Employment Insurance Act that effectively prevent part time workers from receiving employment insurance; part time workers who are predominantly female...	2003
Miller v. (A.G.) Canada	At issue was whether provisions of the federal Unemployment Insurance Act, which result in the reduction or loss of regular unemployment insurance benefits by a women who, having received maternity or parental benefits (special benefits), loses her job, violates s.15 of the Charter...	2002
Blencoe v. Andrea Willis and the British Columbia Human Rights Commission et al., the Court	The Supreme Court of Canada ordered that the sexual harassment complaints against former BC Cabinet Minister Robin Blencoe must proceed. The British Columbia Court of Appeal previously stayed the complaints, agreeing that the Tribunal had lost jurisdiction to hear the complaints...	2000
BCGSEU v. PSERC	Tawney Meiorin, a female forest fire fighter in BC, had worked in this male dominated profession for over two years with good reviews. Then the BC government decided that all fire fighters had to pass a set of tests to show that they could physically do the job. Tawney passed all but one test...	1999
Vriend v. Alberta	Delwin Vriend was fired from his teaching job in 1991 for being gay, in spite of his favourable work record. He attempted to file a complaint with the Alberta Human Rights Commission but discovered that he was legally unable to do so because Alberta does not prohibit discrimination against gays and lesbians...	1998
Ferrel v. A.G	Marilyn Ferrel challenged the constitutionality of the Job Quotas Repeal Act which was enacted by the Ontario government to repeal the Employment Equity Act (EEA). The EEA had been created by a previous government to eliminate systemic discrimination in employment against women, racial minorities, people with disabilities and Aboriginal peoples...	1998
Robin James Goertz v. Janet Rita Gordon	A court order allowing Janet Gordon, a Saskatchewan mother, to relocate with her daughter was challenged by her ex-husband. Ms. Gordon wanted to move with the child to take a new job in Australia but the father said it would limit his access to the child...	1996
Conway v. Her Majesty the Queen	This case was brought by Phillip Conway, a prisoner at Collins Bay penitentiary, who argued that female guards should not be conducting certain routine forms of surveillance...	1993
The Queen v. Schachter	Shalom Schachter applied for maternity benefits so he could stay at home and care for his child. He was denied because said they were only available for mothers. Schatcher claimed this was sex discrimination...	1992
Godwin	In British Columbia, working women are routinely denied disability benefits during pregnancy or maternity leave. LEAF took one of the first BC challenges to stop this lingering form of sex discrimination in employment...	1992	none
Colgate Palmolive	A woman who suffered psychological disability as a result of racist sexual harassment in the workplace won the rights to worker's compensation...	1991	none
Vinogradov v. Governors of University of Calgary et al.	LEAF supported Aleksandra Vinogradov's complaint against the University of Calgary after her application for a full professor position in the Department of Engineering was rejected. Even though she was highly qualified for the position she argued that women had been systematically excluded from the Department...	1990	none
Haldimand-Norfolk Regional Board of Commissioners of Police et al. v. Ontario Nurses Association et al.	After Ontario's pay equity legislation was enacted, the Ontario Nurses Association sought for nurses to be in the same comparator class as police in the municipality of Haldimand-Norfolk...	1990
Janzen and Govereau v. Platy Enterprises Ltd.	Diana Janzen and Tracey Govereau were sexually harassed at the Winnipeg restaurant where they worked. They took their case all the way to the Supreme Court of Canada and won a ruling that sexual harassment is sex discrimination...	1989
Century Oils (Canada) Inc. vs. Davies	Century Oils made an offer of employment to Christine Davies and subsequently withdrew that offer when she told the employer that she was pregnant...	1988
Ivy Tyson and Goodhost Foods - and other mandatory retirement cases	Ivy Tyson challenged her mandatory retirement with no pension, at age 65, from her job at Goodhost Foods. On Mrs. Tyson's behalf, LEAF challenged her mandatory retirement on the grounds that the provisions of the Ontario Human Rights Code which allowed mandatory retirement at the age of 65 infringed on Section 15 of the Charter...	1987	none
Chittenden, Villanueva, Toronto Organization For Domestic Workers' Rights vs. A.G of Ontario	The Toronto Organization for Domestic Workers' Rights' (also known as Intercede) challenged parts of the Ontario Employment Standards Act that excluded domestic workers from minimum wage protection...	1986