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A provincially regulated employee might file a complaint against an employer at the Employment Standards Branch, the Human Rights Tribunal, or with WorkSafe. The ''Employment Standards Act'', the ''Human Rights Code'', and the ''Workers Compensation Act'' each contain provisions which prohibit retaliation for filing complaints.
=== 4. Employment Standards Act Claim Retaliation ===
An employer may not threaten, terminate, suspend, discipline, penalize, intimidate, or coerce an employee because the employee filed a complaint under the ''ESA'' (s 83). If this does happen, the Employment Standards Branch may order that the employer comply with the section, cease doing the act, pay reasonable expenses, hire or reinstate the employee and pay lost wages, or pay compensation (s 79). A complaint may be filed with the Employment Standards Branch.
=== 5. Human Rights Code Claim Retaliation ===
A person must not evict, discharge, suspend, expel, intimidate, coerce, impose any pecuniary or other penalty on, deny a right or benefit to or otherwise discriminate against a person because that person complains or is named in a complaint, gives evidence or otherwise assists in a complaint or other proceeding under this Code (s 43). If a person is discriminated against in such a manner, they may file a complaint at the Human Rights Tribunal in the same way that they would complain about any other discriminatory practice; see [[BC Human Rights Code (6:III)#C. The Complaint Process | Chapter 6: Human Rights, Section III.C: The Complaint Process]].
==== a) Workers Compensation Act ====
Employers and unions must not take or threaten discriminatory action against a worker for taking various actions in regards to the Act, such as reporting unsafe working conditions to a WorkSafe officer (s 151). Remedies include the ability to reinstate the worker to their job (s 153). Additional details are set out in the ''Workers Compensation Act'', Division 6 – Prohibition Against Discriminatory Action. To file a complaint For more information on the Workers Compensation Act and WorkSsafeBC, see the [http://www.worksafebc.com/workers/improving_health_and_safety_at_work/discriminatory_action_complaints/defaultChapter 7 of this manual.asp WorkSafeBC website]
==== b) Common Law Issues/Internal Complaints ====