What Canada Employment Equity Act 1995 requires
The Employment Equity Act (S.C. 1995, c. 44), in force 24 October 1996 and last amended in 2023, requires federally regulated private sector employers with 100 or more employees and federal contractors with 100 or more employees and contracts of CAD 1 million or more to implement employment equity for four designated groups - women, Indigenous peoples, persons with disabilities, and members of visible minorities - by identifying and eliminating barriers to their employment, establishing numerical goals for achieving workforce representation that reflects workforce availability, and reporting annually to the Minister of Labour on workforce composition and progress under Sections 18 and 19, enforced by Canadian Human Rights Commission audits with compliance orders and penalties of up to CAD 50,000 for federally regulated employers under Section 36.
Pillar: Workplace · Authority: Parliament of Canada · Version: 1.0.0 · Last updated:
Primary source: https://laws-lois.justice.gc.ca/eng/acts/E-5.401/page-3.html
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- {"title":"Employment Equity Regulations (SOR/96-470)","url":"https://laws-lois.justice.gc.ca/eng/regulations/SOR-96-470/","section":"Sections 4-24 (workforce survey procedures, occupational group classifications, annual report content requirements, retention of records)","relevance":"Subsidiary regulations specifying the methodology for workforce surveys, the national occupational classification groups for workforce analysis, the required content of annual employment equity reports, and the record retention obligations"}
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