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Chapter Ten: Monitoring, Enforcement and Legal proceedings
Part C: Protection of Employees against Discrimination
79. Protection of rights

 

 

1)       In this section, "employee" includes a former employee or an applicant for employment.

 

2)       No person may discriminate against an employee for exercising a right conferred by this Part and no person may do, or threaten to do, any of the following:

a)       Require an employee not to exercise a right conferred by this Part;

b)       prevent an employee from exercising a right conferred by this Part; or

c)       prejudice an employee because of a past, present or anticipated--

i)         failure or refusal to do anything that an employer may not lawfully permit or require an employee to do;

ii)        disclosure of information that the employee is lawfully entitled or required to give to another person; or

iii)       exercise of a right conferred by this Part.

 

3)       No person may favour, or promise to favour, an employee in exchange for the employee not exercising a right conferred by this Part. However, nothing in this section precludes the parties to a dispute from concluding an agreement to settle the dispute.