When Maria began working for the packaging company in 2013, her first name was Tony. In...

 

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When Maria began working for the packaging company in 2013, her first name was Tony. In 2018, she was accepted in the gender identity clinic and began transition from living as a man to living as a woman. She started the process of sex reassignment and developed female breasts as a result of hormone treatments. Maria says following the start of her gender transition process that she was harassed, subjected to a poisoned work environment. She subsequently resigned her employment with the company in 2020, saying that she had been constructively dismissed. Maria said that Gerry, her direct supervisor, played a central role in the harassment and and in the creation of the poisoned work environment. The company said the acts alleged never happened or, if they did, they were solely the responsibility of Gerry and the company had no case to answer. The company argued that it treated the applicant appropriately, considering her a man and treating her like other men until it received medical or legal documentation that she was a woman. They say they fired her because of her attitude and being involved in workplace conflicts with Gerry and others that were her fault, as well as insubordination. Questions: 1. Has Maria been suffered discrimination under the Human Rights Code? Under what ground? When Maria began working for the packaging company in 2013, her first name was Tony. In 2018, she was accepted in the gender identity clinic and began transition from living as a man to living as a woman. She started the process of sex reassignment and developed female breasts as a result of hormone treatments. Maria says following the start of her gender transition process that she was harassed, subjected to a poisoned work environment. She subsequently resigned her employment with the company in 2020, saying that she had been constructively dismissed. Maria said that Gerry, her direct supervisor, played a central role in the harassment and and in the creation of the poisoned work environment. The company said the acts alleged never happened or, if they did, they were solely the responsibility of Gerry and the company had no case to answer. The company argued that it treated the applicant appropriately, considering her a man and treating her like other men until it received medical or legal documentation that she was a woman. They say they fired her because of her attitude and being involved in workplace conflicts with Gerry and others that were her fault, as well as insubordination. Questions: 1. Has Maria been suffered discrimination under the Human Rights Code? Under what ground?

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