Employment Equity in Canada : The Legacy of the Abella Report / Carol Agocs.

Format:

Book

Author/Creator:

Agócs, Carol, author.

Contributor:

Agócs, Carol.

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Canada. Royal Commission on Equality in Employment.

Canada.

Discrimination in employment--Canada.

Discrimination in employment.

Discrimination in employment--Law and legislation--Canada.

Physical Description:

1 online resource (346 p.)

Place of Publication:

Toronto : University of Toronto Press, [2018]

Language Note:

English

Summary:

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.

Contents:

Introduction : perspectives on Employment Equity in Canada / Carol Agocs

1. The making of the Abella Report : reflections on the 30th anniversary of the Report of the Federal Royal Commission on Equality in Employment / Carol Agocs

2. Employment Equity in Canada : what do the data show about its effectiveness? / Nan Weiner

3. Real change? Reflections on Employment Equity's last thirty years / Raj Anand

4. Women, intersectionality and Employment Equity / Kim England

5. Employment Equity and Canada's Aboriginal peoples / Michael Lynk

6. Employment Equity and disability : moving forward to achieve employment integration and fulfill promises of inclusion and participation / Marcia Rioux and Lora Patton

7. The equity landscape for sexual minorities in Canada / Gerald Hunt, David Rayside and Donn Short

8. Remedying the experiences of vulnerable workers : links with Employment Equity / Patricia Hughes

9. Employment Equity in the federal public service : a union perspective / Allison Pilon

10. Securing Employment Equity by enforcing human rights laws / Mary Cornish, Fay Faraday and Jan Borowy

11. The Employment equity mandate of the United Nations Convention on the Rights of Persons with Disabilities : some preliminary observations for Canada / Michael Ashley Stein

12. New narratives, same old problems : the risk of diversity-centered workplace decision making in a "post-racial" America / Natasha Martin

13. Employment Equity : the next thirty years / Brian Burkett

Conclusion : looking forward : the unfinished business of Employment Equity / Carol Agocs.

Notes:

Includes bibliographical references at the end of each chapters and index.

Description based on online resource; title from PDF title page (publisher's Web site, viewed 25. Jul 2018)

ISBN:

1-4426-6852-0

1-4426-6851-2

OCLC:

890934595