Equity or else.(Canada’s Employment Equity Act is now being enforced by the Canadian Human Rights Commission)(Brief Article).

ID:	HARP-266
Title:	Equity or else.(Canada’s Employment Equity Act is now being enforced by the Canadian Human Rights Commission)(Brief Article).
Source:	Canadian Business, March 19, 2001 v74 i5 p29
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Year:	2001
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Keywords:	Canada, disability, economic, social, and cultural rights, employment, enforcement, equity, human rights, law, legislation, non-discrimination, woman, civil and political rights, indigenous people, visible minority, labor market, minority rights
Abstract:	So, has corporate Canada all of a sudden grown a conscience? Not quite–more like one has been thrust upon it, and it’s called the Employment Equity Act. Employment equity was introduced in 1986 as a way of achieving representation of four designated groups–women, aboriginal people, members of visible minorities and people with disabilities–according to their presence in the labor market. The law caused a furor. Anti-equity groups sprang up across the country claiming the legislation would lead to reverse discrimination. Ontario Premier Mike Harris based his 1995 election campaign in part on ditching the province’s own employment equity law. Employers screamed they’d be forced to hire unqualified workers to satisfy US-style quotas. “There’s the suspicion that if you need legislation to get into the workplace, it means you must not be competent,” says Bazile-Jones. As it turned out, however, the critics didn’t have much to worry about, because the federal government had neglected to put anyone in charge of enforcing the law.
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