{"id":49,"date":"2018-01-01T16:24:09","date_gmt":"2018-01-01T21:24:09","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.debousquet.com\/blog\/?p=49"},"modified":"2019-06-19T16:26:52","modified_gmt":"2019-06-19T20:26:52","slug":"ontario-superior-court-recognizes-workplace-harassment-as-independent-cause-of-action","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.debousquet.com\/blog\/2018\/01\/01\/ontario-superior-court-recognizes-workplace-harassment-as-independent-cause-of-action\/","title":{"rendered":"Ontario Superior Court Recognizes Workplace Harassment as Independent Cause of Action"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>In a recent case titled <i>Merrifield v. Canada (Attorney General),<\/i> the Ontario Superior Court of Justice affirmed that the tort of harassment is a valid cause of action and may be pleaded against an employer by an employee.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>In a recent case titled Merrifield v. Canada (Attorney General), the Ontario Superior Court of Justice affirmed that the tort of harassment is a valid cause of action and may be pleaded against an employer by an employee.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","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\/49"}],"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=49"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/www.debousquet.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/49\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":50,"href":"https:\/\/www.debousquet.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/49\/revisions\/50"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.debousquet.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=49"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.debousquet.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=49"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.debousquet.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=49"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}