Almost seven years after his employment with the town of Deep River was terminated, a complaint filed by former treasurer Nadeem Dean continues to crawl its way through the Ontario Human Rights tribunal.
Full details of Dean’s complaint are not available, but in an “interim decision” issued December 10, adjudicator Joseph Tascona notes that Dean filed his complaint on July 15, 2019, alleging “discrimination because of race, colour, ancestry, place of origin, ethnic origin, disability creed, sex, including sex harassment and pregnancy, and family status.”
Dean originally filed his complaint against both the town of Deep River and former CAO Ric McGee individually.
But in his interim decision, Tascona agreed that McGee could be removed from the file.
Tascona said that in considering whether there is any “compelling reason” to continue a proceeding against a personal respondent, “one way of approaching this question is to ask whether it is necessary to involve this person as a party in order to have a fair, just and expeditious resolution of the merits of the application.”
In Dean’s case, he said, “there is no issue as to the ability of TDR (the town of Deep River) to respond or remedy any alleged (Human Rights) Code infringement.”
In addition, Tascona said, “all of the allegations against Mr. McGee involve actions that were undertaken in the course of his duties as an employee of TDR, in his role as the applicant’s supervisor”…
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