What does the survey have to do with Employment Equity?
From year to year, federal funding assists the University of Victoria with its activities (for example, science and technology upgrades and research). As a recipient of federal funding, UVic is required to comply with Canada’s Employment Equity Act and the survey is a component of a series of statutory requirements of the Act. The Act requires employers who receive government funding to collect and analyze workforce data. This analysis concerns the four designated groups identified by the Act because of the well-documented history of systemic discrimination (which they have faced) in the workplace. The four designated groups are: Aboriginal persons, persons with disabilities, visible minorities and women. The collection of workforce data is fundamental to the employer’s ability to identify and dismantle systemic barriers to employment equity and implement the principle that employment equity means more than treating people in the same way; it also requires special measures and the acco
