C-27 - Labour Code

Section 14 Disposition versions

1983-09-01

14. No employer nor any person acting for an employer or an employers’ association may refuse to employ any person because that person exercises a right arising from this Code, or endeavour by intimidation, discrimination or reprisals, threat of dismissal or other threat, or by the imposition of a sanction or by any other means, to compel an employee to refrain from or to cease exercising a right arising from this Code.

This section shall not have the effect of preventing an employer from suspending, dismissing or transferring an employee for a good and sufficient reason, proof whereof shall devolve upon the said employer.

R. S. 1964, c. 141, s. 13; 1983, c. 22, s. 2.

1977-12-31

14. No employer, or person acting for an employer or an employers’ association, shall refuse to employ any person because such person is a member or an officer of an association, or endeavour by intimidation, threat of dismissal or other threat, or by the imposition of a penalty or by any other means, to compel an employee to abstain from becoming or to cease being a member or an officer of an association of employees.

This section shall not have the effect of preventing an employer from suspending, dismissing or transferring an employee for a good and sufficient reason, proof whereof shall devolve upon the said employer.

R. S. 1964, c. 141, s. 13.