Kathryn Meehan Quoted in the Canadian Labour Reporter

Hicks Morley’s Kathryn Meehan was quoted in the February 19, 2013 edition of Canadian Labour Reporter in an article entitled, “Bosses need good reason to ban tattoos: Lawyers.”  The article discusses the recent award in Ottawa Hospital v CUPE. In this case, the Arbitrator had struck down the policy on tattoos and piercings and concluded…

Tattoos/Piercings Part of an Employee’s Identity: Arbitrator

A recent arbitration award has found that a hospital’s dress code policy for unionized employees was unenforceable as it prohibited certain body piercings and required large tattoos to be covered. The arbitrator found that tattoos and piercings are a part of an employee’s identity and that the restrictions in the dress code policy were an…

Ontario Court Finds Decision of Human Rights Tribunal to be Factually and Legally Flawed

The Ontario Divisional Court has recently found that a decision of the Ontario Human Rights Tribunal was legally and factually unsupportable and that it was “simply not possible to logically follow the pathway taken by the adjudicator and to determine the reasonableness of the conclusions reached.” In Audmax v. Human Rights Tribunal of Ontario and…