If your boss is treating you differently, this might be discrimination, harassment or violence in the workplace. Under the Alberta Human Rights Act, your employer cannot discriminate against you based on your race, religious beliefs, colour, gender, gender identity, gender expression, physical disability, mental disability, age, ancestry, place of origin (where you were born), marital status, source of income, family status or sexual orientation. For more information, read our infographic or visit the Alberta Human Rights Commission’s website. Employers and supervisors are also required to make sure that workers do not experience or participate in harassment or violence at a work site. Harassment is any single incident or repeated incidents of objectionable or unwelcome conduct, comment, bullying or action by a person that will or would cause offence or humiliation to a worker, or negatively affects the worker’s health and safety. Harassment includes: conduct, comment, bullying or action because of race, religious beliefs, colour, physical disability, mental disability, age, ancestry, place of origin, marital status, source of income, family status, gender, gender identity, gender expression and sexual orientation, and a sexual solicitation or advance. Harassment does not include any reasonable conduct of an employer or supervisor that has to do with managing a worker or work site. For example, a supervisor giving feedback to a worker is not considered harassment unless the manner in which the supervisor gives the feedback is not appropriate. Violence is defined as “the threatened, attempted or actual conduct of a person that causes or is likely to cause physical or psychological injury or harm, and includes domestic or sexual violence.” Workplace violence includes violence at a work site or violence that is work-related. Last Reviewed: September 2019