She was on maternity leave when the email about her job went out without her

A Toronto District School Board project manager who was reassigned out of her team while pregnant, then left uninformed about the budget cuts that wiped out her job during her maternity leave, has won a pregnancy discrimination and reprisal ruling against her former employer.

In a decision dated May 27, 2026, adjudicator Denise Ghanam of the Human Rights Tribunal of Ontario found that the board discriminated against Tiffany Kartos because of sex (pregnancy) and reprised against her for asserting her rights under the Human Rights Code. A separate disability claim was dismissed, and a hearing on what the board must pay is set for June 29, 2026.

Kartos joined the board in 2014 as a project manager, hired by the senior manager who created the role to support information management and technology projects. After a 2017 miscarriage that required surgery and a three-month absence, and a second pregnancy late that year, her once-strong rapport with that manager began to deteriorate, the tribunal heard.

When she disclosed the second pregnancy in January 2018, she asked to work remotely on days when pregnancy-related illness kept her out of the office, and her physician provided four notes supporting the arrangement. The senior manager agreed informally but, the tribunal found, grew uneasy as her remote days added up, missing scheduled meetings and turning curt.

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