Alberta Human Rights Information Service February 4, 2008
In this issue:
New Commission publication: When is discrimination not a contravention of the law?
Letters to editors from the chief commissioner
Quick Facts regarding Commission complaints
1. New Commission publication: When is discrimination not a contravention of the law?
The Commission has published a new interpretive bulletin, When is discrimination not a contravention of the law?
This interpretive bulletin includes a number of tools to help employers, service providers, landlords, and others who must interpret and apply human rights law determine if a standard or practice conforms to the law. It provides information about reasonable and justifiable discrimination for:
- employers, service providers, and landlords who must meet the requirements of the Human Rights, Citizenship and Multiculturalism Act
- employees, service users, and tenants
- others who need to understand or apply human rights law
The information in this bulletin is intended to:
- guide employers, service providers, and landlords in designing and implementing business practices that do not contravene the Act
- help employees, service users, and tenants to understand the concept of reasonable and justifiable discrimination
- increase awareness of situations in which an otherwise discriminatory practice would be found reasonable and justifiable
2. Letters to editors from the chief commissioner: Charlach Mackintosh, chief commissioner of Alberta Human Rights and Citizenship Commission, submitted letters to the editors of the Calgary Herald and the Edmonton Journal, in response to comments about the Commission's investigative process. Read the letter submitted to the Calgary Herald, and the letter submitted to the Edmonton Journal.
3. Quick Facts regarding Commission complaints: The Commission's website offers two new Quick Facts resources regarding human rights complaints:
- Quick Facts about Commission complaint resolution processes helps to raise awareness and understanding of the Commission's complaint resolution process.
- Quick Facts about human rights complaints in the area of publications and notices focuses on section 3 of the Human Rights, Citizenship and Multiculturalism Act.
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