Definitions for "Employment equity"
Refers to a workplace that is reflective of the entire community and that values and empowers all employees. Some governments will use the term for organisations, which do business with the government under the terms of an Employment Equity Act.
A strategy to eliminate the effects of discrimination and to make employment opportunities available to groups who have been excluded.
Refers to a workplace that is reflective of the entire community and that values and empowers all employees. This term also refers to organizations which do business with the Canadian government and fall under the terms of the Employment Equity Act (1986).