Course Description In addition to exploring basic human rights concepts such as discrimination, harassment, accommodation, and reprisal under Ontario’s Human Rights Code, Franklin Law’s “The Human Rights Workshop for Unionized Employees” provides unionized employees with information that will help them to better understand important differences between filing human rights-related Applications before the Human Rights Tribunal of Ontario […]
After 12 years with her employer, a dedicated, frontline worker was suddenly disciplined, demoted, and stripped of her supervisory duties. The employer was vague about the complaints that fellow employees had made against her and was unable to justify its harsh disciplinary response. After multiple attempts to inquire about the case against her and to […]
Two years after starting her role as an administrative assistant, a worker became ill and was required to take a Long Term Disability leave. When the employee was cleared to return to work, her employer informed her that her position was no longer available. The employer then put the onus on the worker to apply […]
An exceptionally experienced server in a prominent restaurant chain was injured at work and developed a number of disabilities as a result. The seasoned employee booked a Franklin Law consultation after she had been forced out of her employment because younger and insensitive co-workers engaged in an insidious campaign of age- and disability-based harassment against […]
When an employee was accused of harassing another colleague in violation of the Human Rights Code, she booked a Franklin Law Consultation to get much needed legal advice. Although Ron Franklin’s advice was sobering, and of little or no comfort to the employee, the employee’s feedback provided yet another example of the ways in which […]
When an employee was dismissed for cause by his employer without any termination or severance pay, his co-worker referred him to Franklin Law. Ron Franklin had dealt with this particular employer before, and when he reviewed the circumstances surrounding the employee’s termination, he came to believe that the dismissal was unjust. Ron found two facts […]
Ron Franklin was honoured to be a panelist in an access to justice focused event at the Law Society of Upper Canada on April 8, 2015. The event entitled, “Improving Access to Justice”, was organized by Flip Your Wig for Justice, an organization that fundraises for a number of organizations that promote access to justice […]
When a condominium owner approached Franklin Law about the difficulties that she had experienced when she tried to get a condomimum corporation and a property management company to accommodate her disabilities, Ron Franklin was ready and willing to help. The owner met with Franklin Law after she had filed a human rights application at the […]
Mr. Gaisiner had been discriminated against and was ultimately terminated on the basis of his disability. He came to Franklin Law for help, and Ron Frankin represented him at the Human Rights Tribunal of Ontario. After several days of hearing, the Human Rights Tribunal of Ontario rendered its decision in Gaisiner v. Method Integration Inc. […]
Franklin Law represents all types of workers. This case involved a home renovation contractor who claimed that the owner of a house that it had renovated had failed to pay it for work that it had performed as per their contract. The owner struck first and initiated a law suit against our client. He claimed […]