Recently, the B.C. Human Rights Tribunal upheld a complaint in which the termination of a pregnant government employee was found to have been discriminatory.
The tribunal found that the employer had failed in its duty to inquire when the Ministry of Finance employee increasingly missed hours of work and came to work late.
Since the employer was aware that the employee had had difficult pregnancies in the past, it ought to have reasonably surmised that the employee’s behaviour was related to her pregnancy and offered to accommodate rather than terminating her, found the tribunal.
