{"id":22143,"date":"2020-10-07T20:14:24","date_gmt":"2020-10-08T00:14:24","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.leaf.ca\/case_summary\/brooks-v-canada-safeway-ltd-1989\/"},"modified":"2021-11-30T10:46:51","modified_gmt":"2021-11-30T15:46:51","slug":"brooks-c-canada-safeway-ltee-1989","status":"publish","type":"case_summary","link":"https:\/\/www.leaf.ca\/fr\/case_summary\/brooks-c-canada-safeway-ltee-1989\/","title":{"rendered":"Brooks c. Canada Safeway Lt\u00e9e (1989)"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p>Cette affaire concernait la question de savoir si la discrimination li\u00e9e \u00e0 la grossesse \u00e9tait une discrimination sexuelle.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Le FAEJ, avec le soutien de West Coast FAEJ, est intervenu devant la Cour supr\u00eame du Canada.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<h2 class=\"wp-block-heading\">Faits<\/h2>\n\n\n\n<p>Canada Safeway avait un r\u00e9gime d&rsquo;assurance collective qui pr\u00e9voyait des prestations en cas de perte de salaire r\u00e9sultant d&rsquo;un accident ou d&rsquo;une maladie. Le plan excluait les femmes enceintes pendant une p\u00e9riode de dix-sept semaines autour de leur date pr\u00e9vue d&rsquo;accouchement. En cons\u00e9quence, ils ne pouvaient pas recevoir de prestations, m\u00eame s&rsquo;ils avaient une maladie totalement ind\u00e9pendante de leur grossesse.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Susan Brooks, Patricia Allen et Patricia Dixon ont toutes travaill\u00e9 \u00e0 Canada Safeway. Toutes les trois sont tomb\u00e9es enceintes en 1982 et n&rsquo;ont pas \u00e9t\u00e9 autoris\u00e9es \u00e0 r\u00e9clamer des prestations du r\u00e9gime d&rsquo;assurance pendant la p\u00e9riode de dix-sept semaines. Ils ont d\u00e9pos\u00e9 des plaintes devant la Commission des droits de la personne du Manitoba, all\u00e9guant de la discrimination sexuelle. L\u2019arbitre de la Commission a rejet\u00e9 les demandes. La Cour du Banc de la Reine du Manitoba et la Cour d\u2019appel du Manitoba ont confirm\u00e9 le rejet.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<h2 class=\"wp-block-heading\">Argumentation<\/h2>\n\n\n\n<p>Le FAEJ a fait valoir que, \u00e9tant donn\u00e9 la conception alors de l&rsquo;\u00e9galit\u00e9 et du droit de ne pas subir de discrimination, la discrimination fond\u00e9e sur la grossesse devait \u00eatre une discrimination fond\u00e9e sur le sexe. Pour les femmes en tant que groupe, la capacit\u00e9 de devenir enceinte n&rsquo;\u00e9tait pas volontaire. Pour que les femmes jouissent de l\u2019\u00e9galit\u00e9 des chances de participer \u00e0 la soci\u00e9t\u00e9, il faut reconna\u00eetre la valeur sociale de la procr\u00e9ation.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<h2 class=\"wp-block-heading\">R\u00e9sultat<\/h2>\n\n\n\n<p>La Cour supr\u00eame du Canada a statu\u00e9 que la discrimination fond\u00e9e sur la grossesse \u00e9tait une forme de discrimination sexuelle. Il a reconnu que le fait d&rsquo;avoir des enfants profite \u00e0 la soci\u00e9t\u00e9 dans son ensemble et que les femmes ne devraient pas \u00eatre \u00e9conomiquement ou socialement d\u00e9savantag\u00e9es en raison de leur capacit\u00e9 \u00e0 procr\u00e9er. La Cour a \u00e9galement r\u00e9affirm\u00e9 que la discrimination peut \u00eatre constat\u00e9e m\u00eame lorsque certains membres du groupe ne sont pas confront\u00e9s \u00e0 cette discrimination.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Il s\u2019agit d\u2019une d\u00e9cision historique qui refl\u00e8te un mod\u00e8le d\u2019\u00e9galit\u00e9 qui tient compte des r\u00e9alit\u00e9s biologiques, sociales et \u00e9conomiques de la vie des femmes et exige que les lieux de travail \u00e9liminent les attitudes et les pratiques qui d\u00e9favorisent les femmes. En outre, la Cour supr\u00eame a annul\u00e9 sa d\u00e9cision ant\u00e9rieure (Bliss c. P.G. Canada) qui avait conclu que la discrimination fond\u00e9e sur la grossesse n&rsquo;\u00e9tait pas une discrimination fond\u00e9e sur le sexe.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Le FAEJ remercie Lynn Smith et Kathryn Thomson, avocates dans cette affaire.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>T\u00e9l\u00e9chargez le m\u00e9moire du FAEJ <a href=\"https:\/\/www.leaf.ca\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/11\/Brooks-LEAF-Factum.pdf\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener\">ici<\/a>.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Lire la d\u00e9cision de la Cour supr\u00eame du Canada <a href=\"https:\/\/www.canlii.org\/en\/ca\/scc\/doc\/1989\/1989canlii96\/1989canlii96.html?autocompleteStr=brooks&amp;autocompletePos=1\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener\">ici<\/a>.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p><em>Nos dossiers sont imparfaits, mais nous faisons de notre mieux pour les mettre \u00e0 jour &#8211; si vous \u00e9tiez impliqu\u00e9 avec le FAEJ dans cette affaire mais que votre nom n&rsquo;appara\u00eet pas ici, veuillez nous envoyer un courriel \u00e0<\/em> <a href=\"mailto:info@leaf.ca\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener\"><em>info@leaf.ca<\/em><\/a><em>.&nbsp;<\/em>&nbsp;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"featured_media":0,"template":"","meta":{"_acf_changed":false},"categories":[],"tags":[638,609,608],"class_list":["post-22143","case_summary","type-case_summary","status-publish","hentry","tag-pregnancy-fr","tag-sex-discrimination-fr","tag-workplace-rights-fr"],"acf":[],"yoast_head":"<!-- This site is optimized with the Yoast SEO plugin v27.4 - https:\/\/yoast.com\/product\/yoast-seo-wordpress\/ -->\n<title>Brooks c. 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