The federal Employment Equity Act: goals vs. implementation

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Policy analysts have frequently noted the gap between the intentions of policy makers and the effects of a program of change. This paper questions the ability of the implementation process to achieve the objectives of the federal Employment Equity Act. It argues that organizations under the act have not progressed towards employment equity, not because they have failed to implement the policy according to its legal provisions, but because the act itself is fundamentally flawed. While collecting statistics from the workplace may be useful in identifying discriminatory practices and problem areas and in identifying weaknesses in the evaluative and corrective mechanisms in the act, the reliance on data collection as the sole measure of effective implementation is highly simplistic. The usefulness of the data is compromised by the extent to which they actually reflect decreased discrimination. Furthermore, it is erroneous to suppose that employers of their accord will sanction themselves when statistics reveal an unrepresentative internal workforce. (Reprinted by permission of the publisher.)

Employment discrimination

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Rights of anonymity and rights of solitude: ethical information management in the private sector

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The Organization for Economic Co-operation and Development's (OECD) guidelines for the protection of privacy form a good basis for creating a regulatory framework for protecting the right of privacy and anonymity in the management of information in the private sector. The OECD framework is based on eight principles, which are incorporated more or less into Canadian law. The eight rules cover collection limitation, data quality, proposed specification, use limitation, security safeguards, openness, accountability, and individual participation. Rights to privacy are more strongly protected under the civil law regime of Quebec than under the regimes of the other provinces.

Analysis, Privacy, Ethical aspects, Ethics, Quebec, Organization for Economic Cooperation and Development, Information management, Quebec (Province)

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