How has the HRTO treated age discrimination in employment law?
Ontario, Canada
The following excerpt is from Bagherinia v. Wal-Mart Canada Corp, 2018 HRTO 502 (CanLII):
The applicant is not suggesting that there was any explicit age discrimination. There is no suggestion, such as in Reiss v. CCH Canadian Limited, 2013 HRTO 764 (“Reiss”) at paras. 83-85, that the respondent had indicated it was looking for someone “more junior”, or some similar euphemism for age. Rather, the applicant’s argument is that the only explanation for the respondent hiring someone with less experience is that they did not want him because of his age.
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