ADM 2337 Lecture Notes - Lecture 3: Canada Labour Code, Occupational Segregation, Main Source
2 Dec 2016
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3: equity and diversity in human resource management. Employment equity: the employment of individuals in a fair and non biased manner. Designated groups: women, visible minorities, aboriginal people, and persons with disabilities who have been disadvantaged in employment: status of designated groups. The higher we go in the organizational chart, the less those groups are present. Disadvantages: high unemployment, occupational segregation, pay inequity, limited opportunities for career progress. Concentrated in occupations that are accorded lower status and pay. Earn 85 cents for every dollar earned by men. Latin americans and southeast asians experience lower than average incomes, higher rates of unemployment, and reduced access to job interviews. Systemic barriers such as culturally biased aptitude tests, lack of recognition of foreign credentials, and excessively high language requirements. 73% of new immigrants have high education, but high rate of unemployment (2x) Higher unemployment rate than the national unemployment rate. Low education, lack of job experience, language, cultural barriers.
