Wednesday, May 6, 2020

Alberta Human Rights Commission

Question: Discuss about the Alberta Human Rights Commission. Answer: Introduction: Human Rights Association in Alberta came into existence in year 1968 under Mr. F.C Brodie (he was the secretary of Alberta Federation of Labour). In the starting time this association was suffering with a problem of lack of money but in 1971 the association got funds from Secretary of a state and became stable in year 1972. There were almost 200 members in the association by year 1972. Soon after the stability association was renamed to Alberta Human Rights and Civil Liberties Association (Alberta Human Rights Commission, 2017). The recent amendment made in Albertas human rights was on 11th December 2015. In the amendment it was made clear that gender identity and gender expression are protected so that people can be protected against these acts (Alberta Canada, 2014). Act covers all the human being residing in Alberta, including citizens and tourists of the state also. All of them are allowed to enjoy every human right which is written down in the act. Also it only applies to the person who respects the rights of other persons. This act does not cover the people having inhuman nature and also those who does not respect the human rights of other people. For example - terrorists, as they have inhuman nature and they do not respect the human rights of other people therefore they are away from their human rights (OHRC, 2017). Purpose and Overview The basic purpose of human rights in Alberta was to stop discrimination between people of the same state on basis of race, sex, color etc. The main purpose of the act is that it keeps every citizen of its state on same level either he is rich or poor. This act has bought a great change in Alberta and now here people feel safer and live more happily than they were before the advent of this act. Another purpose of the act is to make sure that all peoples of Alberta are given equal opportunity to earn for themselves and to live in a place and also to enjoy all the services which are for public in the country (Koshan, 2012). The main purpose of the act was to form Alberta Human Rights Commission. The commission was formed to carry out its function under the present act. The aim of the commission is to promote equality and to remove discrimination completely from the nation with the help of educating the people about their human rights which are given to them by the government (Ualberta, 2017). Key sections of human rights act in Alberta can be section 3 that is Discrimination re publications, notices this section talks about non - discrimination of people on basis of race, sex color, caste etc. (Cashra, 2017) . Section 16 that is Functions of Commission it talks about the functions of the human rights commission of Alberta and the main aim of the act was to establish the commission. Section 20 that is Who may make complaint under this section the people whose human rights are violated they can make a complaint against it. Section 21 that is Settlement of Complaint under this section the settlement of the complaints made under section 20 are there. Lastly section 22 that is Director power re complaint this section says that if the director feels that the complaint is without merit he/she can dismiss it. The enforceability lies down with all the people who are residing in the state of Alberta because these rights are available for all of the people of Alberta only. They are jointly liable for the enforcement of these rights (ACLRC, 2017) Employment related situations In a firm there were two employees X (male) and Y (female). Both of them were at same position in the office. They used to do equal amount work and their timing was also same. But Y was paid more than X. In the above case section 6 (qp.alberta, 2015) of the Human Rights of Alberta will be applicable which states that equal pay should be given to employees of both the sexes if they are doing equal amount of work. In the above situation rules and conditions stated in section 6 arent followed by the firm; as we can see that both X and Y was paid differently in spite of their same work done. Here we can see that there was clear discrimination on the basis of gender between both the employees by the firm. This is total violation of section 6 of Human Rights of Alberta. In a public bus the driver didnt allowed a black person to sit whereas all other people were allowed to get inside the bus. In that bus only white people were allowed to travel. In the above situation there is clear violation of section 4 of the Human Rights of Alberta which states that No one can stop anyone from using any public goods, services etc. till they are available for everyone on basis of caste, race, color, gender etc. But in the above mentioned situation the person was not allowed to sit in the public bus because of his color. There is a possible risk if the act is not properly followed. A complaint can be filed under heading Enforcement of the act from section 20 to section 45 against the person who is not following this act. And further actions can be taken by the courts in such matters. References ACLRC. (2017). Human Rights law in Alberta. Retrieved from https://www.aclrc.com/alberta-human-rights-commission/ Alberta Canada. (2014). Employment equity and human rights. Retrieved from https://www.albertacanada.com/business/invest/employment-equity-and-human-rights.aspx Alberta Human Rights Commission. (2017). Commission newsletter. Retrieved from https://www.albertahumanrights.ab.ca/Pages/default.aspx Cashra. (2017). The Alberta Human Rights Commission: fostering equality and reducing discrimination. Retrieved from https://www.cashra.ca/past-featured/alberta-hr.htm Koshan, J. (2012). The Alberta Election and Human Rights. Retrieved from https://ablawg.ca/2012/04/09/the-alberta-election-and-human-rights/ OHRC. (2017). Housing and Human Rights in Canada. Retrieved from https://www.ohrc.on.ca/en/human-rights-and-rental-housing-ontario-background-paper/housing-and-human-rights-canada Qp.alberta. (2015). Alberta Human Rights Act. Retrieved from https://www.qp.alberta.ca/documents/Acts/A25P5.pdf Ualberta. (2017). What are Human Rights? Retrieved from https://www.ualberta.ca/vice-president-finance/audit-and-analysis/human-rights-resources-training/about-human-rights/what-are-human-rights

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