title: Quebec: employer who disclosed employee's HIV-positive status violated rights to dignity and freedom from discrimination.
abstract: The Quebec human rights tribunal held that an employer who disclosed the HIV-positive status of an employee to his staff violated the employee's right to the safeguard of his dignity, without distinction or exclusion based on disability, contrary to Sections 4 and 10 of the Charter of Human Rights and Freedoms (the Quebec Charter).
authors.affiliation: Canadian HIV/AIDS Legal Network. ckazatchkine@aidslaw.ca
authors.forename: Cécile
authors.initials: C
authors.lastname: Kazatchkine
mesh_terms: D030881:Disclosure; D004651:Employment / Q000331:legislation & jurisprudence*; D006679:HIV Seropositivity; D006806:Human Rights / Q000331:legislation & jurisprudence*; D006801:Humans; D008297:Male; D011287:Prejudice; D011792:Quebec