What is the test for applying for employment in the electrical cable industry?
British Columbia, Canada
The following excerpt is from E.C.S. Electrical Cable Supply Ltd. v. B.C. (Council Of Human Rights), 1996 CanLII 1479 (BC SC):
The petitioner's main complaint is that these applications were not made in the electrical cable industry where she had worked for the previous ten years. However, even if the petitioner is right in saying it was incumbent on the respondent to search for the industry with which she was familiar, her failure to do so is not conclusive. The petitioner must also show that had she made such efforts, she likely would have found employment (Fisher v. Seton Lake Indian Band, [1994] B.C.J. No. 3009 (B.C.S.C.) (Q.L.) at para. 22; Wright v. Westar Mining Ltd., [1987] B.C.J. No. 1877 (B.C.S.C.) (Q.L.) at 6ff). The petitioner concedes there was no such evidence adduced. In fact, the evidence was that the industry was in a slump, although it may have been improving by December 1991.
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