Ontario Calls on Employers to Prevent Discrimination Against Addicts

Sept.: The Ontario Human Rights Commission report on discrimination against individuals with addictions and mental health problems calls on employers to:

• Adopt written policies on accommodating “psychosocial disabilities”
• Train employees and supervisors to recognize addictions and mental illnesses as disabilities protected from discrimination
• Consider such disabilities in performance review, discipline and termination
• Create special employment support programs for such individuals.

Manage Employees with Addictions without Committing Discrimination

• Drug & Alcohol Addictions at Work & the Legal Limits of Employee Testing