Advocates and a union representing federal public servants are applauding the federal government’s “historical” decision to create new designated groups for Black and 2SLGBTQI+ people in the Employment Equity Act.
The federal government announced the decision on Monday alongside the release of the Employment Equity Act Review Task Force’s long-awaited final report, which included recommendations to create the new groups. Other recommendations included establishing an employment equity data steering committee and replacing the term “designated groups” in the Act with “employment equity groups.”
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At a news conference on Monday, Labour Minister Seamus O’Regan called the move “pretty historical.”
“This is historical and one that I take very personally, and I’m delighted to see it,” O’Regan said. “Diversity is a fact, inclusion is a choice, equity is the law.”
O’Regan said the government also planned to look “very carefully” at labour legislation language around Indigenous and people with disabilities, adding that the report included 187 recommendations that the feds would “take some time” to go through. The minister added that changes to legislation would “hopefully” be made soon.
A news release by Employment and Social Development Canada said that, on top of creating the two new groups, “initial commitments to modernize the Act” included replacing the term “Aboriginal Peoples” with “Indigenous Peoples,” replacing “members of visible minorities”...
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