Humber/Ontario Real Estate Course 1 Exam Practice

Which of the following is NOT accurate concerning RECO's approach to progressive discipline?

1. Allows for increasingly severe discipline levels when a registrant has four different offences within a three-year period

2. May be used in instances where the same infraction occurs more than once

3. Is progressive in the sense that administrative actions taken are increasingly severe when the same offence is repeated

4. Is best described as three levels of increasingly severe penalties for first, second and third repeated offences

The correct answer is: Allows for increasingly severe discipline levels when a registrant has four different offences within a three-year period

The correct answer highlights the nuances of RECO's approach to progressive discipline. RECO operates on a principle where the disciplinary actions are intensified based on repeat offenses. However, the statement regarding four different offenses within a three-year period is not a recognized standard in RECO’s guidelines. Instead, the focus is on the nature of repeated offenses, not necessarily the volume across different types of infractions. RECO's progressive discipline process is geared more towards how many times the same type of infraction has occurred. It maintains a structured system for addressing repeated violations, which is best expressed through descriptions of sequential penalties corresponding to the frequency of identical offenses. By understanding these principles, one can appreciate that the essence of RECO's disciplinary approach is more concerned with the repetition of the same issues rather than accumulating different offenses over a specified period.