Discrimination and Harassment

 If you wish to discuss any incidents of harassment, sexual harassment or discrimination, you may consult with your employer’s harassment officer. You have a right to consult the Ontario Human Rights Commission. You are also welcome to call Laurier’s Harassment and Discrimination

Co-ordinator at 884-0710, extension 6979. We urge you to let the assistant director or your co-op co-ordinator know about any incidents.

Here is a link to Laurier’s entire harassment and discrimination policy. You will find below an outline of Laurier’s policy, including definitions of grounds covered by the policy. The university cannot assure you that its policy and procedures apply while you are on work terms.

The University is committed to providing an environment for study, teaching, research work and recreation for all members of the University community that is supportive of professional and personal development and free from all forms of harassment and/or discrimination outlined in the Ontario Human Rights Code as follows:

Section 5.1: Every person has a right to equal treatment with respect to employment without discrimination because of race, ancestry, place of origin, colour, ethnic origin, citizenship, creed, sex, sexual orientation, age, record of offenses, marital status, family status or handicap.

Section 5.2: Every person who is an employee has a right to freedom from harassment in the workplace by the employer or agent of the employer or by another employee because of race, ancestry, place of origin, colour, ethnic origin, citizenship, creed, age, record of offenses, marital status, family status or handicap.

Section 7.2: Every person who is an employee has a right to freedom from harassment in the workplace because of sex by his or her employer or agent of the employer or by another employee.

Section 7.3: Every person has a right to be free from,

(a) a sexual solicitation or advance made by a person in a position to confer, grant or deny a benefit or advancement to the person where the person making the solicitation or advance knows or ought reasonably to know that it is unwelcome; or

(b) a reprisal or a threat of reprisal for the rejection of a sexual solicitation or advance where the reprisal is made or threatened by a person in a position to confer, grant or deny a benefit or advancement to the person.