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Record Human Rights Damage Award for Injury to Dignity, Feelings and Self-respect: AB v Joe Singer Shoes Limited
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Record Human Rights Damage Award for Injury to Dignity, Feelings and Self-respect: AB v Joe Singer Shoes Limited

By June 6, 2018June 20th, 2019No Comments

In AB v Joe Singer Shoes Limited, the Human Rights Tribunal of Ontario ("HRTO") awarded $200,000 to an employee for injury to dignity, feelings and self-respect resulting from repeated sexual assault and harassment. This is one of the HRTO’s highest damage awards.

The employee immigrated to Canada from Thailand in 1979 and obtained her first job in Canada working for Joe Singer, since deceased, at Joe Singer Shoes Limited. Joe Singer was the father of Paul Singer, the alleged perpetrator of the sexual assault and harassment. Paul Singer became the employee’s boss after the death of his father. Sometime after the employee and her husband separated in 1989, the employee moved into an apartment above the store where she worked. Her landlord was a company owned by Paul Singer.

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