Employees fired due to disability or pregnancy: AAPS
The Association of Administrative and Professional Staff (AAPS), which represents management and professional staff at University of British Columbia (UBC), helped six of its members file a total of eight human rights complaints against the University on Oct. 3.
AAPS alleged that its members were terminated or denied a promotion on the basis of disability or pregnancy, said the union.
“Legally, the university has an obligation to accommodate disabled employees so that they can continue to thrive in the workplace,” said Joey Hansen, AAPS executive director. “However, at UBC it seems that there are a number of instances where the university’s senior leadership has, in our view, discarded disabled employees as though they were broken office furniture.”
Hansen said he hopes that the university reinstates these employees and by taking proactive measures to ensure similar discriminatory actions don’t occur in the future.
The AAPS is the professional association for the management and professional staff group at UBC. AAPS represents its about 4,500 members in collective bargaining and dispute resolution with the university.
