Reprisal is when an employer penalizes you for asserting your legal rights or taking other lawful actions like:
- Reporting a health and safety complaint
- Filing a complaint about workplace harassment or sexual harassment
- Inquiring about, or trying to, enforce your employment standards; and
- Requesting an accommodation based on protected grounds
Reprisal can take various forms, including:
- Being scheduled for fewer or less preferable shifts
- Intimidation, e.g.: telling you that if you complain again there will be consequences
- Being dismissed
- Receiving a pay cut
- Coercion, e.g.: being threatened into not complying with an investigation; and
Being passed over for promotions or opportunities.
