Employment equity is an anti-discrimination policy in Canada that requires or encourages preferential treatment in employment practices for certain designated groups (the ones who are often discriminated): women, people with disabilities, aboriginal people, and visible minorities. While being a defense for these groups it goes beyond and also requires that these specific groups be targeted for proactive treatment. The whole process of establishing employment equity began in 1984 by the Abella Commission, chaired by Judge Rosalie Abella. She considered the US term, affirmative action, but decided to reject that term because of the emotions and ill will surrounding affirmative action. It was replaced with employment equity term for Canada. The report filled by Judge Abella later became the foundation of the Employment Equity Act of 1986, which was later amended as the Employment Equity Act of 1995. The Employment Equity Act designates four groups that have benefit of employment equity: - Women; - People with disabilities; - Aboriginal people; - Visible minorities; In case of visible minorities and using the definition of the Canadian government, it covers: Blacks, Chinese, Filipinos, Japanese, Koreans, Latin Americans, Pacific Islanders, South Asians, and West Asians/Arabs. As for aboriginal people, this category covers Status Indians, Non-status Indians, Métis (people of mixed French-Aboriginal ancestry in western Canada), and Inuit (the Aboriginal people of the Arctic). Both of these categories use the controversial term "non-white" for defining the minorities. It is used in employment equity questionnaires distributed to applicants and employees. While it was intended to be a shorthand phrase it ended up as very confusing term, since people from some groups (like Arabs or Latin Americans) may consider themselves to be white which leads to mistakes in questionnaires. The Act is a federal legislation and so it covers only the industries that are federally regulated under the Canadian constitution. These are banks, broadcasters, telecommunication companies, railroads, airlines, maritime transportation companies, other transportation companies if inter-provincial in nature, uranium-related organizations, federal crown corporations (companies where the federal government owns the majority of shares), and corporations controlled by two or more provincial governments. Unfortunately a big percentage of employers like all retailers and manufacturing companies, fall outside its jurisdiction. The Federal Contractors Program (FCP), it is not a part of the Employment Equity Act, but it helps to extends employment equity to organizations beyond the scope of the Act. It states that suppliers of goods and services to the federal government (with some specified exceptions) must have an employment equity program in place. While the act was definitely created with good intentions it is widely considered controversial. The opponents of employment equity argue that it violates the equality in general. But the critics argue that such actions are necessary to amend historic wrongs and to minimize economic differences between groups.
Lawyerahead Inc. is Markham-based company (Ontario, Canada) with a phone number 6478084447. Our data show that the company is located at the address: 176 Highglen Ave. The company has a web site: www.lawyerahead.ca.
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