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The AODA is designed to reduce and remove barriers for people with disabilities to access goods, services, facilities, accommodation, employment, buildings, structures and premises. The AODA requires public and private organizations to create and follow plans to improve accessibility in areas like customer service and communication under the principles of dignity, independence, integration and equal opportunity.

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Ontario Employment Equity Act

According to the Ontario Employment Equity Act:

• All people are entitled to equal treatment in employment in accordance with the Ontario Human Rights Code (OHRC).

• Indigenous people, people with disabilities, members of racialized groups and women are entitled to be considered for employment, hired, retained, treated and promoted in accordance with employment equity principles.

The following principles of employment equity apply throughout Ontario and are applied to each Indigenous person, person with a disability, member of a racialized group and woman:

• Members of these groups are entitled to be considered for employment, hired, retained, treated and promoted free of barriers, including systemic and deliberate practices and policies, which discriminate against them.

• Every employer’s workforce (in all occupational categories and at all levels of employment) will reflect the representation of members of these groups.

• Every employer will ensure its policies and practices with respect to recruitment, hiring, retention, treatment and promotion are free of barriers, both systemic and deliberate, that are discriminatory.

• Every employer will implement positive and supportive measures regarding recruitment, hiring, retention, treatment and promotion for members of these groups.

Please note: This section uses updated language, not contained in the Ontario Employment Equity Act, to describe equity-deserving groups.

• Government of Canada – Pay Equity Act

• Ontario Pay Equity Office – The Q&A guide to Ontario’s Pay Equity Act

• Canadian Human Rights Commission – What is pay equity?

Employees don’t have a general right to work remotely (from home). Your employer may have a remote work policy, or you may reach an agreement on a remote work plan with your employer. In some cases, remote work may be arranged due to an employee’s workplace accommodation request. 

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