Employment Equity Act opens doors for Native job-seekers.

Windspeaker | December 1, 1997| | Copyright

Windspeaker Staff Writer

OTTAWA

The one year grace period is over and now the Canadian Human Rights Commission is ready to audit the federal government's public and private sector companies and departments looking for compliance with Canada's new employment equity legislation.

The new act, which was adopted by the federal government in 1995 and came into law on Oct. 26 of 1996, gave federally-controlled employers one year to make sure that Aboriginal people, visible minorities, disabled people and women were represented equitably in their ...

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