ADMS 2600 Chapter Notes - Chapter 3: Human Resources Development Canada, Canadian Human Rights Act, Equal Pay For Equal Work

• School: York University
• Department: Administrative Studies
• Course: ADMS 2600
• Professor: Gordon Qi Wang

Document Summary

Outcome 1: explain the reasons for equity legislation. Employment equity: this is that the employment of individuals is fair and non biased. Designated groups: women, visible minorities, aboriginal people, and persons with disabilities who have been disadvantaged in employment. Women, aboriginal people, visible minorities, and people with disabilities face signi cant (albeit different) disadvantages in employment even though they make up. Tend to be concentrated in occupations with lower pay and status. Women are underrepresented as semi-professionals and technicians, supervisors in trades, and in natural and applied sciences, management positions, and members of boards. Their unemployment rate is higher than the national unemployment rate. The median pay for aboriginal relative to the canadian population was lower (more then ,000 lower). Many aboriginal people face major barriers to employment which is often compounded by low educational achievement and lack of job experience, and language and cultural barriers. In urban centres, aboriginal people are concentrated in low paying, unstable employment.