(a)a female employee's pregnancy, or any reason connected with her pregnancy;

(b)the fact that an employee took, or proposed to take, any leave to which he or she was entitled under the law or a contract;

(c)an employee's membership or proposed membership of a labour union;

(d)participation or proposed participation in the activities of a labour union outside working hours or, with the consent of the employer, within working hours;

(e)an employee's seeking of office as, or acting or having acted in the capacity of, an officer of a labour union or a workers' representative;

(f)an employee's refusal or proposed refusal to join or withdraw from a labour union;

(g)an employee's race, colour, sex, religion, political opinion or affiliation, national extraction, nationality, social origin, marital status, HIV status or disability;

(h)an employee's initiation or proposed initiation of a complaint or other legal proceedings against his or her employer, except where the conduct is, in the opinion of the labour officer, wholly irresponsible and without foundation; and

(i)an employee's temporary absence from work for any period up to three months on reliable grounds, including illness or injury.