Employment Equity in Canada

by Carol Agocs

Author	: Carol Agocs
Publisher	: University of Toronto Press
Total Pages	: 346
Release	: 2014-07-31
Genre	: Law
ISBN	: 1442668520

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In the mid-1980s, the Abella Commission on Equality in Employment and the federal Employment Equity Act made Canada a policy leader in addressing systemic discrimination in the workplace. More than twenty-five years later, Employment Equity in Canada assembles a distinguished group of experts to examine the state of employment equity in Canada today. Examining the evidence of nearly thirty years, the contributors – both scholars and practitioners of employment policy – evaluate the history and influence of the Abella Report, the impact of Canada’s employment equity legislation on equality in the workplace, and the future of substantive equality in an environment where the Canadian government is increasingly hostile to intervention in the workplace. They compare Canada’s legal and policy choices to those of the United States and to the UN Convention on the Rights of Persons with Disabilities, and examine ways in which the concept of employment equity might be expanded to embrace other vulnerable communities. Their observations will be essential reading for those seeking to understand the past, present, and future of Canadian employment and equity policy.

Employment Equity in Canada

by Carol Agócs

Author	: Carol Agócs
Publisher	: University of Toronto Press
Total Pages	: 346
Release	: 2014-01-01
Genre	: Law
ISBN	: 1442615621

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In the mid-1980s, the Abella Commission on Equality in Employment and the federal Employment Equity Act made Canada a policy leader in addressing systemic discrimination in the workplace. More than twenty-five years later, Employment Equity in Canada assembles a distinguished group of experts to examine the state of employment equity in Canada today. Examining the evidence of nearly thirty years, the contributors both scholars and practitioners of employment policy evaluate the history and influence of the Abella Report, the impact of Canada's employment equity legislation on equality in the workplace, and the future of substantive equality in an environment where the Canadian government is increasingly hostile to intervention in the workplace. They compare Canada's legal and policy choices to those of the United States and to the UN Convention on the Rights of Persons with Disabilities, and examine ways in which the concept of employment equity might be expanded to embrace other vulnerable communities. Their observations will be essential reading for those seeking to understand the past, present, and future of Canadian employment and equity policy.

Employment Equity Policy in Canada

by Abigail Bess Bakan

Author	: Abigail Bess Bakan
Publisher	: Status of Women
Total Pages	: 240
Release	: 2000
Genre	: Business & Economics
ISBN	:

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This report presents findings from research comparing employment equity policies in Canada's 10 provinces and the federal government. The study is based on policy analysis and on a series of qualitative interviews with equity policy stakeholders. The report contains: a comparative analysis of employment equity policy administration in provincial governments; an overview of the history and context of employment equity policy in Canada; a specific consideration of the rise and fall of employment equity policy in Ontario as a case study; consideration of the employment equity policy debate in Canada; an assessment of research findings from the perspective of senior governmental administrators and public servants responsible for employment equity policy implementation; an assessment of research findings from the perspective of those involved with labour and community employment equity issues; recommendations.

Employment Equity and Affirmative Action

by Harish C. Jain

Author	: Harish C. Jain
Publisher	: M.E. Sharpe
Total Pages	: 252
Release	: 2003
Genre	: Business & Economics
ISBN	: 9780765604521

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Compares the employment equity/affirmative action practices of six countries -- the United States, Canada, Great Britain/Northern Ireland, India, Malaysia, and South Africa.

Working towards Equity

by Dustin Galer

Author	: Dustin Galer
Publisher	: University of Toronto Press
Total Pages	: 326
Release	: 2018-01-01
Genre	: History
ISBN	: 1487521308

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In Working towards Equity, Dustin Galer argues that paid work significantly shaped the experience of disability during the late twentieth century. Using a critical analysis of disability in archival records, personal collections, government publications and a series of interviews, Galer demonstrates how demands for greater access among disabled people for paid employment stimulated the development of a new discourse of disability in Canada. Family advocates helped people living in institutions move out into the community as rehabilitation professionals played an increasingly critical role in the lives of working-age adults with disabilities. Meanwhile, civil rights activists crafted a new consumer-led vision of social and economic integration. Employment was, and remains, a central component in disabled peoples' efforts to become productive, autonomous and financially secure members of Canadian society. Working towards Equity offers new in-depth analysis on rights activism as it relates to employment, sheltered workshops, deinstitutionalization and labour markets in the contemporary context in Canada.

Equity, Diversity & Canadian Labour

by Gerald Hunt

Author	: Gerald Hunt
Publisher	: University of Toronto Press
Total Pages	: 305
Release	: 2007-10-06
Genre	: Political Science
ISBN	: 1442691026

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In recent years, the Canadian labour movement has undergone fundamental change in response to demands for greater inclusion and representation by women, visible and sexual minorities, and people with disabilities. Equity, Diversity, and Canadian Labour explores the specific challenges put to outmoded attitudes and practices, charting the efforts made by organized labour in Canada towards addressing discrimination in the workplace and within unions themselves. While there has been a fair amount of progress in this regard, persistent impediments to equity and uneven responsiveness within and across diversity issues remain. This collection of original essays brings together contributors from a variety of academic backgrounds - women's studies, political science, sociology, industrial relations - and from the labour movement itself to examine union policies, practices, and cultures with respect to diversity issues. The first comprehensive analysis of Canadian labour's response to challenges on gender, race, disability, and sexual orientation issues since the 1980s, the book aims to highlight the structural and cultural developments that have taken place within the labour movement around equality rights, and to provide a forum for debates about the extent to which union democracy has been reshaped as a result of equity activism.

Employment Equity and Affirmative Action: An International Comparison

by Harish C. Jain

Author	: Harish C. Jain
Publisher	: Routledge
Total Pages	: 244
Release	: 2015-03-27
Genre	: Business & Economics
ISBN	: 1317472047

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The authors of this comparative study of affirmative action compare the employment practices of six countries: the U.S., Canada, Great Britain/Northern Ireland, India, Malaysia, and South Africa. They look at mandatory quota policies; legislated versus voluntary policies; goals and timetables; restrictions and other policies; as well as recruitment, selection, compensation, performance appraisal, promotion, training, and career development. Their findings will prove useful for training managers of companies with global operations.

The Equity Myth

by Frances Henry

Author	: Frances Henry
Publisher	: UBC Press
Total Pages	: 393
Release	: 2017-06-22
Genre	: Social Science
ISBN	: 0774834919

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The university is often regarded as a bastion of liberal democracy where equity and diversity are promoted and racism doesn’t exist. In reality, the university still excludes many people and is a site of racialization that is subtle, complex, and sophisticated. While some studies do point to the persistence of systemic barriers to equity in higher education, in-depth analyses of racism, racialization, and Indigeneity in the academy are more notable for excluding racialized and Indigenous professors. This book is the first comprehensive, data-based study of racialized and Indigenous faculty members’ experiences in Canadian universities. Challenging the myth of equity in higher education, it brings together leading scholars who scrutinize what universities have done and question the effectiveness of their equity programs. They draw on a rich body of survey data, interviews, and analysis of universities’ stated policies to examine the experiences of racialized faculty members across Canada who – despite diversity initiatives in their respective institutions – have yet to see meaningful changes in everyday working conditions. They also make important recommendations as to how universities can address racialization and fulfill the promise of equity in higher education.

Multicultural Education Policies in Canada and the United States

by Reva Joshee

Author	: Reva Joshee
Publisher	: UBC Press
Total Pages	: 273
Release	: 2011-11-01
Genre	: Education
ISBN	: 0774841176

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Multicultural Education Policies in Canada and the United States uses a dialogical approach to examine responses to increasing cultural and racial diversity in both countries. It compares and contrasts foundational myths and highlights the sociopolitical contexts that affect the conditions of citizenship, access to education, and inclusion of diverse cultural knowledge and languages in educational systems.