Transgender Employees: Best Practiceshttp://www.employmentandlabour.com/transgender-employees-best-practices?utm_source=Mondaq&utm_medium=syndication&utm_campaign=View-OriginalEmployment and Labor/Posted on Aug 10th, 2015 By Jessie Lamont
"Transgender rights are a burgeoning area of law across Canada. Most recently, amendments made to the Alberta Bill of Rights on March 10, 2015, which came into force on June 1, 2015[1], recognize gender identity and gender expression as being explicitly protected.[2] Newfoundland & Labrador recently promised to introduce a bill to amend provincial legislation so gender assignment surgery would no longer be required to change the sex designation on identity documents.[3] Likewise, the Yukon NDP tabled a petition for transgender equal rights in April, and in May, the Legislative Assembly debated amending legislation to allow changes of gender assignment on birth certificates without surgery.[4] Although British Columbia was the first province to eliminate the surgical requirement for amending sex designation, the Liberal government has repeatedly declined to sign a pledge supporting transgender equality legislation, attracting the ire of the Vancouver Pride Society. All of this follows on the heels of changes in human rights legislation in Ontario, Manitoba, and, at an as yet undetermined date, Nova Scotia."
