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Janine has been an employee of Dress Me Inc. a national chain ofclothing stores for women (the "Company") for the last 10 years.She began as a sales person and later, in 2017, after completing anMBA, was promoted by the Company to her current position as SeniorSales Manager. The position requires that Janine work regularoffice hours from Monday to Friday, as well as take occasionaltrips to visit major clients, which often exceed the traditionaloffice hours. In January 2020, Janine was involved in a caraccident that luckily did not leave her with any significantphysical injury but the trauma is still evident. She suffers frombad quality of sleep and increased anxiety. She cannot driveanymore and using public transportation to visit clients does notreally work. Janine requests to work in the form of fixed hours ofwork, weekdays only, 9:00am to 5:00pm with a 30 minute break at12:00pm. She also requests to meet clients on zoom. The Companyrefuses her request. They say that it was vital that the hours ofwork of the Senior Sales Manager include occasional longer days andevenings to fit the needs of clients and that there is "an addedvalue to client visits on site". If she can't do longer hours andvisit clients -- they say -- she can go back to her old job as asales person. Janine files a human rights complaint against theCompany.

Briefly describe the legal arguments of both parties(Janine and the Company) in relation to the human rights complaint.[4 marks]

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From Janines perspective she can claim that the accident which has had a traumatic impact on her so much so that it has caused her mental state to be disturbed was during her visit to her    See Answer
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