Simran Bakshi on Workplace and Employment Law: Manufactured Consent is no Consent at all

In the of NK v Botuik, 2020 HRTO 345, the Ontario Human Rights Tribunal revisited the concept of consent within the context of a workplace “relationship”.  The Tribunal declared that “manufactured consent which is secured by ignoring and overriding objections is not consent at all under the law…consent under the law does not extend to situations where a party complies because they fear the consequences of refusing”.

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