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Article: "Tell me where it hurts": workplace sexual harassment compensation and the regulation of hysterical victims.
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- McGill Law Journal
- Article date:
- March 22, 2006
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Informed by a feminist analysis, the author examines a new development in the legal responses to workplace sexual harassment in Quebec. Sexual harassment bas been recognized as a psychological injury, compensable through the province's Commission des accidents de travail. This classification was confirmed in the Beliveau-St-Jacques case, in which an alleged victim of workplace sexual harassment filed a civil suit seeking damages from her employer based on both the civil liability regime and the antidiscrimination and anti-harassment clauses of the Quebec Charter of Human Rights and Freedoms. The Supreme Court of Canada found that Quebec's Act Respecting Industrial ...