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What type of behaviorpolices and/or reinforces traditional heterosexual gender norms?
What is an example of racial harassment?
What is the purpose of mediation in a dispute resolution process?
What is a poisoned work environment?
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What is the purpose of the reasonable person test?
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What is the term for the person who is alleged to be responsible for the discrimination or harassment?
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What is an example of gender-based harassment?
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What is a prohibited ground under the Ontario Human Rights Code?
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What is the purpose of mediation in resolving human rights complaints?
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What is an example of racial harassment in the workplace?
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What is the basis of sexual harassment according to the Ontario Human Rights Code?
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What is included in the definition of workplace sexual harassment?
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What is a common way of expressing gender?
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What is an example of harassment related to the ground of sex, sexual orientation, gender expression and/or gender identity?
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What is gender identity?
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What is the term for the sex or gender of those to whom one is sexually and romantically attracted?
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What is included in the definition of workplace sexual harassment?
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What is an example of harassment related to the ground of sex, sexual orientation, gender expression and/or gender identity?
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Study Notes
Sexual Harassment
- Sexual harassment is a form of discrimination based on the prohibited ground of sex under the Ontario Human Rights Code and the Occupational Health and Safety Act.
- It involves engaging in a course of vexatious comment or conduct against a worker in the workplace because of sex, sexual orientation, gender identity, or gender expression.
- This includes making a sexual solicitation or advance where the person making the solicitation or advance is in a position to confer, grant or deny a benefit or advancement to the worker.
Sexual Orientation
- Refers to the sex or gender of those to whom one is sexually and romantically attracted.
- Categories of sexual orientation typically include attraction to members of one's own sex or gender, attraction to members of another sex or gender, and attraction to people of more than one sex or gender.
Gender Identity
- Refers to each person's internal and individual experiences of gender.
- It is a person's sense of being a woman, a man, both, neither, or anywhere along the gender spectrum.
- A person's gender may be the same as or different from their birth-assigned sex.
Gender Expression
- Refers to how a person publicly presents their gender.
- This can include behavior, outward appearance, dress, hair, make-up, body language, and voice.
- A person's chosen name and pronoun are also common ways of expressing gender.
Examples of Harassment
- Sexually suggestive or obscene remarks or gestures
- Use of homophobic or transphobic epithets, slurs, or jokes
- Insults, comments that ridicule, humiliate, or demean people because of their sex, sexual orientation, gender identity, or expression
- Behavior that polices and/or reinforces traditional heterosexual gender norms
- Intrusive comments, questions, or insults about a person's body, physical characteristics, gender-related medical procedures, clothing, mannerisms, or other forms of gender expression
Racial Harassment
- Racial harassment is harassment on the ground of race.
- It may also be associated with the grounds of color, ancestry, where a person was born, a person's religious belief, ethnic background, citizenship, or language.
- Examples of racial harassment include racial slurs or jokes, ridicule, insults, or different treatment because of racial identity, posting or emailing cartoons or pictures that degrade persons of a particular racial group, and name-calling because of a person's race, color, citizenship, place of origin, ancestry, ethnicity, or creed.
Mediation
- A confidential dispute resolution process where a neutral third party assists two or more parties to resolve conflict.
- It is a voluntary process where parties in dispute consent to meet with a trained mediator to determine whether the dispute can be resolved in a mutually satisfactory manner.
Poisoned Work Environment
- A poisoned work environment is a form of indirect Code-based harassment or discrimination.
- It occurs when comments or actions ridicule or demean a person or group, creating real or perceived inequalities in the workplace.
Prohibited (Protected) Grounds
- Refers to the list of grounds for which a person or group is protected under the Ontario Human Rights Code and Occupational Health and Safety Act.
- See Application section 2.0 for a list of prohibited grounds.
Reasonable Person Test
- An objective standard to measure whether a comment or conduct is discrimination or harassment.
- It considers what a reasonable person's reaction would have been under similar circumstances and in a similar environment.
- It considers the recipient's perspective and not stereotyped notions of acceptable behavior.
Respondent
- The person who is alleged to be responsible for the discrimination or harassment.
Witness
- An individual who may be able to provide information about workplace comments or conduct that are alleged to have violated this policy.
Workplace
- The workplace includes all locations where business or social activities of the City are conducted.
- This policy may apply to incidents that happen away from work (e.g., inappropriate social media posts, phone calls, emails, or visits to an employee's home, incidents at luncheons, after-work socials).
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Learn about workplace sexual harassment, a form of discrimination based on sex, prohibited under the Ontario Human Rights Code and Occupational Health and Safety Act. Understand the definition and consequences.
