Increasingly, employees’ needs relating to their family status are coming into conflict with workplace requirements — particularly their childcare or eldercare obligations. Human rights legislation in almost all jurisdictions across Canada protects employees from discrimination in the course of employment based on family status, which is commonly defined as the status of being in a parent and child relationship.

The question remains, however, whether an employer has a legal obligation to accommodate employees who have childcare challenges, or other family obligations that conflict with work and, if so, to what extent.

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