Do You Have a Case?

A Guide to Employment Discrimination: Public Assistance Status

Why do you believe the discrimination happened because of your Public Assistance Status?

  1. During a job interview, were you asked questions that required you to reveal that fact that you have received public assistance?
  2. Were you treated differently after your employer (or potential employer) became aware that you had received public assistance?
  3. Do you know someone who is not receiving public assistance who was treated better than you in the same situation?

NO, none of these sounds like my situation.

YES, at least one of these fits my situation.


How does the Human Rights Act protect people who have received (or are receiving) public assistance?

In employment, education, housing, public services and credit, it is illegal to discriminate against an individual because of that person's public assistance status.

In practice, charges of employment discrimination based on public assistance status are uncommon. Charges of discrimination based on public assistance status are brought more often in other areas, especially housing.





