Provincial/Territorial Rights (Human Rights)
The Nova Scotia Fair Employment Practices Act
- The Nova Scotia Fair Employment Practices Act (1955) was created to prevent and prohibit discrimination in the workplace.
- As such, employers could no longer discriminate against a potential employee based on the grounds of race, national origin, colour, or religion.
The Nova Scotia Human Rights Commission
- Following the passage of the Human Rights Act in 1963, Nova Scotia would establish its first Human Rights Commission in 1967 to uphold the rights outlined in the Act.
- The Nova Scotia Human Rights Commission has two main roles:
The Nova Scotia Human Rights Act
- •Nova Scotia passed its first Human Rights Act in 1963, which consolidated the province's human rights legislations into a singular Act.
- The Act
The Northwest Territories Fair Practices Ordinance
• This is the Northwest Territories 1968 legislation to prevent discrimination in regard to both accommodation and employment or in membership in trade unions by reason of race, creed, colour, nationality, ancestry, or place of origin.
The Northwest Territories Human Rights Commission
- The Northwest Territories (NWT) Human Rights Commission is an independent agency from the territorial government that works to promote equality and protect human rights within the territory on the basis of the NWT Human Rights Act.
- The commission was developed alongside the
The Northwest Territories Human Rights Act
- The Northwest Territory Human Rights Act prohibits discrimination and harassment on the grounds of: age, disability, race, colour, ancestry, place of origin, ethnic origin, nationality, sex, sexual orientation, gender identity, family status, family affiliation, marital status, social condition, religion, creed, political belief, political association, pardoned criminal conviction, and record suspension.
The Newfoundland Human Rights Code
- The Newfoundland Human Rights Code was passed by the provincial Legislature in 1969 and became part of the provincial law.
- This comprehensive code includes Fair Accommodation Practices
The Newfoundland and Labrador Human Rights Commission
- The Newfoundland and Labrador Human Rights Commission is an independent government agency that promotes, protects, and is responsible for upholding human rights in Newfoundland and Labrador.
- The Commission upholds its mandate by administering the Human Rights Act, resolving and investigating complaints, offering legal advice, preventing discrimination th
The Newfoundland and Labrador Human Rights Act
- The provincial legislation protecting the human rights of people in Newfoundland and Labrador is the Human Rights Act of 2010.
- This act protects people from discrimination and harassment, recognizes the dignity and worth of all people, and affirms that all people have equal rig
The New Brunswick Female Employees Fair Remuneration
- The New Brunswick Female Employees Fair Remuneration Act, formally declared that "no employer and no person acting on his behalf shall discriminate between his male and female employees by paying a female employee at a rate of pay less than the rate of pay paid to a male employee employed by him for the same work done in the same establishment."