Allegations against the CSE regarding the discrimination of an employment applicant

The complainant filed a section 17 complaint regarding their employment application with CSE. More specifically, upon completing a student term contract with CSE and receiving a verbal offer for a further contract, CSE decided not to renew the complainant’s employment. The complainant alleged that this decision from CSE was based on their ethnicity. Despite the Chief of CSE having received a letter of complaint from the complainant, CSE notified NSIRA that its notification letter constituted their first notice of the complaint and requested that the matter be placed in abeyance (on hold). After completing an internal investigation of the complainant’s allegations (independent of NSIRA’s complaints process), CSE and the complainant began discussions toward a settlement. The parties ultimately reached a settlement and notified NSIRA accordingly. The complaint was informally resolved pursuant to Rule 10 of NSIRA’s Rules of Procedure prior to NSIRA rendering a decision on its jurisdiction to investigate this matter.