This entry introduces a new category called “Real Life Pleadings”, in which I will post pleadings from interesting cases. This should be useful to students, who can see how these cases take form.
On May 15th, this Blog referred to a case in which an employee had filed a human rights complaint challenging her employer’s order that she where a skirt with a hem shorter than she believed was consistent with her religious beliefs. Thanks to James Robbins of Cavalluzzo Hayes in Toronto for sending me the complaint-1nov16 that was filed with the Human Rights Commission. As I noted in the previous entry, the case ultimately settled when the employer agreed to move the employee into a job where she did not have to wear the offensive hem. Here’s the ‘memorandum-of-interim-agreement-1. Ultimately, the employer agreed to allow the woman to return to her old screening job… with a longer hem. Common sense prevails occasionally.