Reference no: EM13867355

 Alberta Human Rights Act

            The Alberta Human Rights Commission is putting forth a webinar to portray what is expected to create and actualize a successful badgering counteractive action approach for work environments. Badgering in light of particular zones and grounds is a type of separation that is ensured under the Alberta Human Rights Act directed by the Alberta Human Rights Commission. Having an arrangement aides moderate an association's risk in badgering dissensions, helps support the production of deferential work environments and gives a procedure to administration to manage provocation grievances. This online webinar will incorporate data on: provocation as it identifies with the Alberta Human Rights Act; the requirement for adding to a strategy; key components in an arrangement; how to build up an approach; how the approach can be actualized; and the Alberta Human Rights Commission's arrangement survey administration.

            For the situation under survey, age is characterized in the Act as "18 years or more seasoned." Persons who are 18 years or more established can make grumblings on the ground of age in these zones: proclamations, productions, notification, signs, images, tokens or different representations that are distributed, issued or showed before the general population livelihood rehearses vocation applications or ads participation in exchange unions, businesses' associations or word related affiliations know that age is not an ensured ground in the accompanying regions:

            For instance, a landowner promotes that a loft building is for grown-ups just and indicates that each of the inhabitants must be more than 21 years of age. Since age is not secured in the region of tenure, a 19-year-old couldn't make a grumbling of segregation taking into account age for this situation. Products, administrations, settlement or offices that are generally accessible to people in general. - For instance, a motion picture theater offers lower ticket costs to seniors (individuals more than 65 years old) just. Since age is not secured in the territory of administrations, a 55-year-old couldn't make a grumbling of separation taking into account age for this situation.

            Persons under the age of 18 years can make grumblings on all grounds with the exception of the ground of age. For instance, a 16-year-old can make a dissension of separation in the ranges of livelihood, occupancy; job rehearses, and so on taking into account the grounds of physical handicap, race, sexual orientation, and so forth. In any case, not on the ground of age.

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Assignment 3

The Alberta Human Rights Commission has come up with some laws pertaining fair treatment of all its citizens. These laws ensure that no one individual is unfairly treated on basis of his/her age, race, sex orientation, income, place of origin, marital status, religious affiliation and so on. In this essay, I seek to find a solution in a situation whereby an individual is not allowed to rent an apartment on the basis of being a student.

The Alberta law recognizes all people aged eighteen years and above. At the same time the Alberta Human rights Act section 4 states that no individual has the right to deny to any person or class of persons any goods, services, accommodation or facilities that are customarily available to the public. In this case this landlord has no right to deny me tenancy on the basis of being a student. Being a student doesn't make me a lesser person. My best option to this problem would be to file a complaint against the said landlord with the Alberta human rights commission. I will speak to a commissioner in their office and explain my complaint to him, at the same time providing detailed information concerning the situation. The commission will then make a written record of my complaint. If they assess my complaint and find that indeed I was discriminated against, they will then send a copy to the respondent whom in this case is the landlord. He will then respondent to my complaint and give his point of view on the same in written form. He will also get a chance to say how he wishes to resolve the matter. They will then send me a copy of his response to me which I will thoroughly scrutinize.

At this stage I may choose to drop my complaint or for a second option, the commission may offer us a chance for conciliation, if both of us are willing to amicably resolve the issue. The commission will provide a conciliator. If conciliation does not work, the commission will begin its investigation to my complaint.  Beginning this stage of investigation, my complaint may be referred to the director of the commission whom on reviewing my complaint can discontinue or dismiss my complaint, and or refer it to the Human rights tribunal. If the tribunal finds my complaint has reasonable grounds to proceed, they may ask me and the land lord to resolve the complaint. They may also provide a remedy. In this case, I strongly agree to a remedy in which this landlord agrees to rent his apartments to students. By so doing, I would ensure other students like me are not unfairly treated.

On discrimination of tenancy, part 5 (a) of the act states that no one person shall deny to any person or class of persons the right to occupy as a tenant any commercial unit or self-contained dwelling unit that is advertised or represented as being available for occupancy by a tenant. This act clearly gives me the go ahead to rent an apartment. It's therefore illegal for this landlord to deny me an opportunity to occupy his apartments. To make things worse, this apartment was actually advertised meaning it is open for occupancy. I would thereby insist on making an appointment with the land lord to see this apartment. If he insists on denying me my legal right, I would have no alternate than to file my complaint and have him state why being a student disqualifies me from renting the said apartment. Furthermore, part 5 (b) of the act also warns against discriminating a person with respect to any commercial unit. Probably being a student means I have no source of income to the land lord. This is however not the case. I might be working student. He therefore has no legal right to deny me occupying the apartment.

In conclusion, this writing shows in details the laws of the Alberta Human Right Commission Acts. It further states the legal options such an individual has against a land lord who denies him tenancy for being a student.