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

• Superior document: Title is part of eBook package: De Gruyter University of Toronto Press Complete eBook-Package 2014-2015
• VerfasserIn: Agocs, Carol,
• MitwirkendeR: Abella, Justice Rosalie Silberman,; Agócs, Carol,; Anand, Raj,; Borowy, Jan,; Burkett, Brian W.,; Cornish, Mary,; England, Kim,; Faraday, Fay,; Hughes, Patricia,; Hunt, Gerald,; Lynk, Michael,; Martin, Natasha,; Patton, Lora,; Pilon, Allison,; Rayside, David,; Rioux, Marcia,; Short, Donn,; Stein, Michael Ashley,; Weiner, Nan,
• Place / Publishing House: Toronto : : University of Toronto Press, , [2018]; ©2014
• Year of Publication: 2018
• Language: English
• Physical Description: 1 online resource (352 p.)

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 exa...

Table of Contents

• Frontmatter
• Contents
• Foreword
• Acknowledgments
• Introduction. Perspectives on Employment Equity in Canada
• Chapter 1. The Making of the Abella Report: Reflections on the Thirtieth Anniversary of the Report of the Royal Commission on Equality in Employment
• Chapter 2. Employment Equity in Canada: What Do the Data Show about Its Effectiveness?
• Chapter 3. Real Change? Reflections on Employment Equity's Last Thirty Years
• Chapter 4. Women, Intersectionality, and Employment Equity
• Chapter 5. Employment Equity and Canada's Aboriginal Peoples
• Chapter 6. Employment Equity and Disability: Moving Forward to Achieve Employment Integration and Fulfil Promises of Inclusion and Participation
• Chapter 7. The Equity Landscape for Sexual Minorities in Canada
• Chapter 8. Remedying the Experiences of Vulnerable Workers: Links with Employment Equity
• Chapter 9. Employment Equity in the Federal Public Service: A Union Perspective
• Chapter 10. Securing Employment Equity by Enforcing Human Rights Laws
• Chapter 11. The Employment Equity Mandate of the United Nations Convention on the Rights of Persons with Disabilities: Some Preliminary Observations for Canada
• Chapter 12. New Narratives, Same Old Problems: The Risk of Diversity-Centred Workplace Decision-Making in a "Post-Racial" America
• Chapter 13. Employment Equity: The Next Thirty Years
• Conclusion. Looking Forward: The Unfinished Business of Employment Equity
• Contributors
• Index