Equal Opportunity

Equal opportunity is a state of fairness in which individuals are treated similarly, unhampered by artificial barriers or prejudices or preferences, except when particular distinctions can be explicitly justified. The intent is that the important jobs in an organization should go to the people who are most qualified – persons most likely to perform ably in a given task – and not go to persons for reasons deemed arbitrary or irrelevant, such as circumstances of birth, upbringing, having well-connected relatives or friends, religion, sex, ethnicity, race, caste, or involuntary personal attributes such as disability, age, gender identity, or sexual orientation.Chances …

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AMSSA: Affiliation of Multicultural Societies and Services Agencies of BC · 17 April 2024 English

Key Responsibilities: • Lead media relations and issues management and provide strategic advice and guidance to Trustees and the Executive team on strategy, responses, tactics and best practices to ensure …

diversity of identity and thought. We are an equal opportunity employer and welcome applicants from all backgrounds


CHRC: Canadian Human Rights Commission · 10 April 2024

After the Commission referred the complaint to the Tribunal, CSIS, the Complainant and the Commission settled the matter without a Tribunal hearing. [...] The Commission argued that the evidence supported …

Commission protects the core principle of equal opportunity and promotes a vision of an inclusive society


CASW: Canadian Association of Social Workers · 5 April 2024 English

Over the years, the organization has evolved both structurally and programmatically to become a more integrated and coordinated response to chronic homelessness in the City of London. [...] With the …

ca/londoncares-exec-dir/. London Cares is an equal-opportunity employer and welcomes applications mailto:sam@griffithgroup


CHRC: Canadian Human Rights Commission · 4 April 2024

Remember: Developing a workplace harassment and violence prevention policy is the shared responsibility of the employer and the relevant health and safety committee or representatives (who are referred to as …

and violence; • worker belief in access to equal opportunity and non-discriminatory treatment; and • worker


BCCA: British Columbia Institute for Co-operative Studies · 3 April 2024 English

Role Summary: The Executive Director would be taking on an exciting opportunity with the BCCA to lead the voice of the province’s co-op and credit union sector, develop a compelling …

to apply is April 22, 2024. ** We are an equal opportunity employer and value diversity at our organization


CHA: Canadian Historical Association · 26 March 2024 English

The Farley Distinguished Visiting Scholar is dedicated to the teaching of history, broadly construed, which is understood to include studies of the past, including the recent past, carried out within …

gender and sexual diversity; ensure that equal opportunity is afforded to all who seek employment at


Wellesley Institute · 18 March 2024 English

Notable examples include the economic disempowerment of Indigenous communities upheld by the 1876 Indian Act59,60, and the persistent anti-Black racism and segregation of African Canadians – in housing, employment, schooling …

Well Being, Inclusion, Sustainability and Equal Opportunity. https://www.oecd.org/wise/Inequalities-in- Well Being, Inclusion, Sustainability and Equal Opportunity. https://www.oecd.org/wise/Inequalities-in- Well Being, Inclusion, Sustainability and Equal Opportunity. https://www.oecd.org/wise/Inequalities- Well Being, Inclusion, Sustainability and Equal Opportunity. https://www.oecd.org/wise/Inequalities-


First Nations Child and Family Caring Society of Canada · 13 March 2024 English

2 Principles Best interests of the child: The best interests of the child must be a primary consideration in structuring and implementing the Reformed Funding Approach and the Fully Reformed …

as of 2016 or later have a substantively equal opportunity to design and develop prevention services;


PI: Pembina Institute for Appropriate Development · 7 March 2024 English

Canadas Energy-Fuelled Gender Gap Canada’s Energy-Fuelled Gender Gap Pay disparity in the energy sector and opportunities for equity in the clean energy economy Trinity LaBarre-Song and Kendall Anderson March 2024 …

Addressing the barriers that women have to equal opportunity in the workplace could see the decline of


Childcare Resource and Research Unit · 2 March 2024 English

For the first time, the assessment goes beyond the laws on the books—de jure—to examine the frameworks supporting implementation of the law and to gauge experts’ opinions on the outcome …

notable progress over the decades in enacting equal opportunity laws for women, today women enjoy less than taken into consideration, no country provides equal opportunity for women. • Thirty-seven economies grant women. The gap is even wider in practice than equal opportunity laws on the books suggest. • Effective implementation assertive in advancing three categories of legal equal opportunity reforms—pay, parental rights, and workplace substantial progress in enacting laws to provide equal opportunity for women, half of humanity—3.9 billion women


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