Search results
Results from the WOW.Com Content Network
Employment equity, as defined in federal Canadian law by the Employment Equity Act (French: Loi sur l’équité en matière d’emploi), requires federal jurisdiction employers to engage in proactive employment practices to increase the representation of four designated groups: women, people with disabilities, visible minorities, and Indigenous peoples. [1]
The Department has vowed to continue their work with GBA+ in the coming year, including implementing a GBA+ Awareness Week as well as investing in the Women's Program, and continuing its work with It's Time: Canada's Strategy to Prevent and Address Gender-Based Violence and other Gender Based Violence initiatives. It also plans to continue ...
Thibaudeau v Canada: income taxability of alimony for child support received by ex-wife from ex-husband: Supreme Court of Canada: 1995 Trociuk v British Columbia (AG) control of identity on child's birth certificate: Supreme Court of Canada: 2003 United Automobile Workers v. Johnson Controls, Inc. fetal protection policies impede the hiring of ...
Companies with at least 100 employees in the EU must also track and disclose information about gender pay gaps across the organization, regardless of where the organization is based, the law ...
Under the heading of "Equality Rights" this section states: 15. (1) Every individual is equal before and under the law and has the right to the equal protection and equal benefit of the law without discrimination and, in particular, without discrimination based on race, national or ethnic origin, colour, religion, sex, age or mental or physical disability.
Gender Pay Gap Figures. On the heels of Internationals Women's Day, Salesforce, an American cloud computing company, announced its plan to combat gender pay differences in the company.
On 10 July 2019, New York Governor Andrew Cuomo signed into law legislation guaranteeing equal pay for equal work regardless of one's gender. [33] [34] This builds on the 1944 law by prohibiting employers from asking job candidates about their previously salary, a loophole that has had a history of enforcing pay inequality based on gender. [33]
The Global Gender Gap Report 2015 ranks Singapore's gender gap at 54th out of 145 states globally based on the economic participation and opportunity, the educational attainment, the health and survival, and the political empowerment sub-indexes (a lower rank means a smaller gender gap). The gender gap narrowed from 2014's ranking of 59.