Blanchet found no Canadian precedents for female-on-female workplace discrimination
Susan Blanchett · They Spent 8 Months Looking for a Reason to Fire Her — and Failed · Feb 11, 2021 · at 24:13
Susan Blanchet, lawyer and founder of Origen Air, describes researching case law on workplace harassment following her termination from a Canadian government legal role.
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“And the sad thing, I could not find one case and I looked for weeks and hours every day of a female on female discrimination in the legal, in the law world. There is not a case. Well, I found one actually. I found one not in Canada, in the United States, and the case, this woman was a dental assistant, and she got hired. Three weeks later, the boss's wife comes in, doesn't like the way she looks because she was too pretty. The next day she's fired, and the courts upheld the decision because they said a man had the right to have a workplace free of temptation. That's the only case I could find.”
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