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Summary Chart: Alberta Human Rights Damage Awards
Summary Chart: Alberta Human Rights Damage Awards
| Case
Descending Date Order |
Facts Summary | Compensatory and Lost Income Awards |
| General Considerations | The rough maximum of Alberta awards was considered $10,000 until the award of $25,000 upheld in 2013 by the Alberta Court of Appeal Walsh v Mobil Oil. There was also a reprisal sum awarded in this case of $10,000.
Recent sexual harassment cases have awarded sums between $35,000 to $50,000. |
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| Complainant v 1957753 Alberta Ltd. o/a 4 Seasons Transport
Alb HRT June 2025
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Repeated unwanted sexual comments directed to complainant. 50 sexual comments within a five-week message log, indicating a toxic and hostile work environment. Remarks included references to sex toys, the complainant’s body, and sexually charged innuendos. Forced to resign.
Suffered from depression, intensified ADHD symptoms, suicidal ideations, stomach ulcers, chronic nausea, muscle tension, migraine headaches.
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$50,000 |
| Oliva, Pascoe, and Strong v Gursoy
Alb HRT March 2024 |
Olivia suffered from adverse treatment due to sexual harassment and physical disability. The offensive conduct was verbal abuse and inappropriate touching.
Pascoe was subjected to sexual harassing conduct, and reprisal. Strong was sexual harassment. As a note, the respondent was the former principal of the employer which had become insolvent. He represented himself at the hearing.
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Olivia – $75,000 and $50,000 for reprisal = $125,000
Pascoe – $30,000 and $25,000 for reprisal = $55,000 Strong – $50,000
Total award $230,000 |
| Smith v Popowich
Alb HRT Nov 2022
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Verbally sexually harassment persistently.
Commission requested $25,000. |
$35,000 |
| McCharles v Jaco Line
Alb HRT Oct 2022 |
Verbally sexually harassed and inappropriate touching | $50,000 |
| Yaschuk v Emerson Electric
Alb HRT May 2022
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Verbally sexually harassed by HR Manager.
Adverse conduct had profound effect on the complainant and her allegations were not properly investigated and the conduct was not inadvertent; |
$50,000 |
| Sunshine Village Corporation v Boehnisch
Alberta KB 2020 |
Perceived physical disability of ski patroller. Failure to accommodate | $25,000 plus lost income of $54,472 |
| SMS v CEP Union
Arbitrator Award Upheld on review 2015 |
Child care issues and rotational shift work | Ordered to allow regular day shifts |
| Clark v Bow Valley College
AHRC 2014 |
Issue of the availability of child care following pregnancy leave | $15,000 and lost income award of 4 months (mitigation issues) |
| Walsh v Mobil Oil
Alberta CA 2013 |
Gender and reprisal | $10,000 and $25,000; lost income due to adverse treatment and reprisal of $472,666 and pension loss of $139,154 and counseling bills of $10,000; Six years of lost earnings was not fully compensated. |
| Hansen v Big Dog Express
AHRC 2002 |
Pregnancy | $5,000 |
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