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Human Rights Damages: Summary: Saskatchewan
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| Case | Year | Summary | Award |
| General Commentary | The legislators of Saskatchewan have placed a limit on the sum which may be awarded for compensatory damages for a human rights violation as $20,000. This includes any award for “punitive damages” for conduct which is wilful or reckless. An award of lost income may be allowed in addition to this sum. A person subjected to the most brutal forms of human rights abuse in a workplace environment will see such a maximum recovery. | ||
| 2014 cap increased to $20,000 | |||
| Howard Johnston v Sask HRC | 2009 | Verbal sexual harassment | $2,000; cap was $10,000; costs ordered of $1,000 due to abusive conduct at the hearing |
| Merrick v Ipsco | Nov 2008 | Terminated due to drug addiction; | $4,000 against employer and $4,000 against the union; |
| Sask HRT | “substantial” award appropriate | ||
| Abu-Ghazaleh v. JKT Holdings Ltd | Apr 2008 | Sexual harassment; | $6,000 |
| Sask HRT | The harassment in this case was both verbal and physical. The harassment was “not particularly aggressive”; | ||
| Hawman v. Battlefords School | Jan 2008 | Failure to accommodate medical disability and termination of employment | $6,500 |
| Evans v. Karavas | June 2007 | The verbal abuse was frequent and ongoing; | $2,000 |
| Shier v Edworthy Saskatchewan HRT | 2003 | A complainant who was the subject of one aggressive act of a physical nature, at age 21 or 22, highly physically and economically vulnerable, and subjected to verbal abuse on the same day, showing impact on her self-esteem, without "significant physiological impact". | $2,000.00 |
| Nov 2001 cap set at $10,000 | |||
| Karlenzig v. Chris' Holdings Ltd. Sask HRT | 1991 | A woman suffered from a "serious physiological impairment" who reported "reported sleep disturbances, shaking, crying and nightmares". | $2,500. The legislated cap was then $5,000. |
| Saskatchewan Board of Inquiry, Ratzlaff v. Dimas (1986), 7 C.H.R.R. D/3402 | B of I 1986 | A 19 year old woman, economically vulnerable, subjected to persistent physical and verbal harassment, suffering from severe injury to self-esteem. | $2,400. The legislated cap was then $5,000. |
| This, combined with the sexual comments directed at the Complainant, created an intimidating and offensive working environment. | |||
| the physical contact was intrusive and ongoing. There were two perpetrators. | |||
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