Montréal lawyer Daphnée Legault comments on the need for employers to respect the human rights of trans or non-binary job applicants even in cases where safety or commercial risks are raised in an article published in Canadian HR Reporter.
“The risk that your clientele might not be happy, or you might even lose some clients, or that it will create problems with other employees in the workplace, on theory, cannot be considered at all behind the reasoning of whether or not you’re hiring the person,” said lawyer Daphnée Legault.
