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The Saskatchewan Human Rights Code, SS 1979 c S-24.1 | Prohibited Grounds | (m.01) "prohibited
ground" means:
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Discrimination prohibited in employment | 15(1) No person shall, in
making available to any person a contract that is offered to the
public:
(1.2) The right pursuant to subsection (1) is not infringed where:
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Discrimination in employment | 16(1) No employer shall
refuse to employ or continue to employ or otherwise discriminate
against any person or class of persons with respect to employment,
or any term of employment, on the basis of a prohibited
ground. (2) No employee shall discriminate against another employee on the basis of a prohibited ground. (3) No employment agency shall discriminate against any person or class of persons in receiving, classifying, disposing of or otherwise acting on applications for the agency's service or in referring an applicant or applicants to an employer or anyone acting on an employer's behalf on the basis of a prohibited ground. (3.1) No employer shall use, in the hiring or recruitment of persons for employment, an employment agency that discriminates against any person or class of persons seeking employment on the basis of a prohibited ground. (4) No provision of this section relating to age prohibits the operation of any term of a bona fide retirement, superannuation or pension plan, or any terms or conditions of any bona fide group or employee insurance plan, or of any bona fide scheme based upon seniority. |
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[cnt'd] | (5) Nothing in this
section deprives a college established pursuant to an Act of the
Legislature, a school, a board of education or the Conseil scolaire
fransaskois of the right to employ persons of a particular religion
or religious creed where religious instruction forms or may form
the whole or part of the instruction or training provided by the
college, school, board of education or Conseil scolaire Fransaskois
pursuant to The Education Act, 1995. (6) Repealed. 1989-90, c.23, s.12. (7) The provisions of this section relating to any discrimination, limitation, specification or preference for a position or employment based on sex, disability or age do not apply where sex, ability or age is a reasonable occupational qualification and requirement for the position or employment. (8) This section does not prohibit an employer from refusing to employ or refusing to continue to employ a person for reasons of any prohibited ground of discrimination where the employee is:
(10) This section does not prohibit an exclusively non-profit charitable,philanthropic, fraternal, religious, racial or social organization or corporation that is primarily engaged in serving the interests of persons identified by their race, creed, religion, colour, sex, sexual orientation, family status, marital status, disability, age, nationality, ancestry, place of origin or receipt of public assistance from employing only or giving preference in employment to persons similarly identified if the qualification is a reasonable and bona fide qualification because of the nature of the employment. (11) This section does not prohibit an employer from:
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Discrimination prohibited in contracts | 15(1) No person shall, in
making available to any person a contract that is offered to the
public:
(1.2) The right pursuant to subsection (1) is not infringed where:
(2) Repealed. 1980-81, c.41, s.3. |
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