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WEEKEND EXTRA Friday Aerial 1MZ Page code strictly regulates sexual harassment Continued from page t company can refuse to hire a child or spouse of an employee Someone you hire to take cure of your or on III relative may be discriminated against or any reason I timing Everyone has the right to equal treatment with respect to living in any accommo dation without nation on the basis of any of the prohibited grounds of discrimination For Legally refuse to rent someone apartment because you dont like religion or the color of skin You cannot refuse some one as a tenant because he or Is on welfare You cannot refuse to rent someone house because he or has children But this right Is also subject to some except Ions a A religious able educational or soda organization can restrict the people to whom It provides accommodation to those whom it was designed to servo an Italian community nurs ing home may be able to restrict its residents to people of Italian origin b The owner can dis criminate against anyone with whom his or her family must share a bath room or kitchen The owner can dis criminate against you on Ibe basic of bis or her tenants except his or her own family are of the same sex Thus It Is still possible to nave women- only boarding house If the owner Uvea in an apartment block with leas than four flata or apartments he or she can discriminate against prospective tenants on the talis of their marital status be or she can choose to rent only to married couples or only to widows and widowers e If a building or part of a building shares a common entrance for all tenants the owner may discriminate on the basis of family status Ie be or she can choose to rent only to chlldleaa adults crest tag a childfree apartment block or may restrict a part of the building to adults only apartments You can rely on the Code when you are 1 working or looking for work looking for or using hous ing S looking for or using services goods or faculties making a contract or S being harassed Tms part of Article J will deal with services goods and fad litlea making contracts and being harassed J Services goods or Everyone has the right to equal treat ment with respect to serv ices goods or facilities without discrimination because of any prohibited ground of discrimination This much broader than the right that existed under the old Code which only created rights for places to which the public is customarily admitted This right like ail of the others under the new Code is subject to some exceptions a Discrimination on the basis of sex Is permit to preserve public decency This means that your local swimming pool will not need unisex locker rooms Discrimination on the basis of sex is also permitted for athletic so bays and girls teams can con tinue A recreational dub can restrict its member ship or give preference in fees and dues on the basis of age sex marital italic or family status Thus a golf club can offer family memberships that are cheaper than Individual memberships An Insurer can con tinue to offer Insurance at premium rates that vary because of age sex marlt status family status or handicap but only if that variation Is reasonable and genuinely required A religious charit able or social organisation can restrict membership or participation to the group It serves Therefore membership in the Knights of Columbus may continue to be restricted to Csthollca and a womens social club can exclude OCeatraeU Everyone is entitled to contract equal terms without dis crimination because of any prohibited ground of discriminations This right Interlocks with the right to goods services and faclll lies since many goods services and facilities are available under contract Every time you buy something at a store or get your shoes repaired or rent an apartment you are making a contract for goods services or accom modation Even though nothing Is written down a verbal agreement may still be a contract in law and Is then subject to this right However an Insurance contract may discriminate on the bases of age sex marital stilus family status and bandl cap as long as the restrict Ion Is reasonable Exceptions to the right to be free from There are exceptions to almost all the rights under the Code For example the Code allows for the creati on of affirmative action programs 1 programs designed to discriminate In favsor of disadvantaged groups would allow a university to set up a special admissions program that Is favour able to Indians and Metis Tor example or mature students These programs may be specially by the Human Rights Commission in advance The Code also allows for specially favourable treat of senior dtiiens so your local bank can con tinue to offer seniors free chequing privileges The Code also allows employers and some to dlscri minalc in favour of Canadian ciliiens or land immigrants In certain situations The Code does not provide that a person has rights of access to every place service accommodation or facility Thus a hand capped person In a wheel chair cannot complain that a theatre is mlnating against him or her simply because the theatre does not have ramps by which a wheel chair can enter or aisles wide enough for It to pass through The question of access Is one in which the rights of the handicapped are not recognlied by Ontario law although the Commission will try to help them come to some practical solution To be sure whether the Code applies In any situation it is best to write or call the Ontario Human Rights Commissi S Harassment Is a series of actions that are annoying frightening or Just plain unwelcome Some exampl es are racial or ethnic slurs physical aggression or property damage Every person who accommodation baa the right to be free of harass ment because of any pro hibited ground of discri mination relating to accommodation by the landlord someone acting for the landlord or anoth er tenant Every person who works has the right to be free of harassment because of any prohibited ground of discrimination relating to employment by his or her employer someone acting for the employer or another employee Sexual harassment in the workplace In accom modation and In some other situations Is also forbidden by the Code Sexual includes unwelcome behavior by your landlord someone acting for the landlord another tenant your employer someone acting for the employer or a coworker The Code also provides the right for everyone to be free of sexual advances from anyone who is In a posi lion to give or withhold a benefit for example a university professor who is grading a student or an em ployer who may give an employee a raise in salary You have a right to be free of reprisals or threats for refusing sexual Trie Information In this article is accurate as of July 19S1 For more information on this and other topics contact Community Legal Hon Ontario Noble Street Toronto Ontario M6K2C9 For legal advice contact your local lawyer or the Hal ton Hilts Community Legal Aid Clinic at Wcslcyan St 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