Alberta Human Rights Commission

The Alberta Human Rights Commission is a quasi-judicial human rights body in Alberta, Canada. It was established under the Alberta Human Rights Act. It is responsible for the reduction of discrimination "through the resolution and settlement of complaints of discrimination, and through human rights tribunal and court hearings."[1]

Controversial decisions

Mihaly v. The Association of Professional Engineers and Geoscientists of Alberta

Since 1999, Ladislav Mihaly, who trained as an engineer in Czechoslovakia in the 1970s, has sought accreditation as an engineer in Alberta, but APEGA said that he did not meet its requirements. He refused to submit to any of the technical examinations but did take a required ethics examination — and failed it, twice. Almost a quarter of Alberta's engineers are immigrants who submitted to the same examinations that Mihaly refused or failed. In 2008, he took his case to the Alberta Human Rights Commission, which ruled in February 2014 that APEGA must pay Mihaly $10,000, provide him with a personal mentor and form a committee to re-evaluate his credentials.[2] APEGA has stated that it is appealing the decision.[3]

The chair of the tribunal which wrote the decision, Moosa Jiwaji, had his term on the commission cut short. It was supposed to run until the summer of 2016, but in March 2014 the Alberta solicitor general announced that Jiwaji was no longer on the commission.[4][5]

See also

References

  1. ↑ About the Alberta Human Rights Commission
  2. ↑ "Mihaly v. The Association of Professional Engineers, Geologists and Geophysicists of Alberta, 2014 AHRC 1". CANLII. February 6, 2014. Retrieved 9 August 2014.
  3. ↑ "APEGA to Appeal Alberta Human Rights Tribunal Decision" (Press release). APEGA. 10 February 2014. Retrieved 9 August 2014.
  4. ↑ Schneider, Katie (20 March 2014). "Levant, Sun viewers score victory as judge no longer with Alberta Human Rights Commission". Sun News. Retrieved 9 August 2014.
  5. ↑ Gerson, Jen (21 March 2014). "Alberta judge who handed down controversial ruling on engineer professional standards no longer at Human Rights Commission". National Post. Retrieved 9 August 2014.

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