{"id":19,"date":"2018-09-20T13:40:02","date_gmt":"2018-09-20T17:40:02","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.debousquet.com\/blog\/?p=19"},"modified":"2022-03-10T15:11:22","modified_gmt":"2022-03-10T20:11:22","slug":"escalating-damage-awards-for-employees-at-the-hrto","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.debousquet.com\/blog\/2018\/09\/20\/escalating-damage-awards-for-employees-at-the-hrto\/","title":{"rendered":"Escalating damage awards for employees at the HRTO"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>The Ontario <i>Human Rights Code<\/i> (the &#8220;<i>Code<\/i>&#8220;) prohibits discrimination in five areas, including employment. An employee who successfully establishes a violation of the<i> Code<\/i> at the Human Rights Tribunal of Ontario (&#8220;HRTO&#8221;) may be entitled to reinstatement and back pay, an award of general damages for &#8220;injury to dignity, feelings and self-esteem,&#8221; or both.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The Ontario Human Rights Code (the &#8220;Code&#8220;) prohibits discrimination in five areas, including employment. An employee who successfully establishes a violation of the Code at the Human Rights Tribunal of Ontario (&#8220;HRTO&#8221;) may be entitled to reinstatement and back pay, an award of general damages for &#8220;injury to dignity, feelings and self-esteem,&#8221; or both.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[2],"tags":[],"aioseo_notices":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.debousquet.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/19"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.debousquet.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.debousquet.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.debousquet.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.debousquet.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=19"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/www.debousquet.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/19\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":722,"href":"https:\/\/www.debousquet.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/19\/revisions\/722"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.debousquet.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=19"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.debousquet.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=19"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.debousquet.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=19"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}