Surveys of the workforce and a careful review of employment procedures will help determine the extent of discrimination, the availability of workers from the designated groups, and the practical changes necessary to achieve equality. Object to the harassment of members. Take a stand. The CAW National Office will help local leadership set up educational sessions about employment equity measures. Pay equity attempts to equalize wage rates between workers performing work of equal value by evaluating their jobs.
Employment equity tries to eliminate all barriers to the designated groups in employment.
It includes hiring and selection, promotion, and transfer rights. Affirmative action is a concept that hails from the United States, but the term is sometimes used interchangeably with employment equity. In the CAW, we use the term affirmative action to refer to equity strategies internal to the union. Voluntary employment equity programmes have been in place in Canada for more than fifteen years, with little improvement for the designated groups. The federal legislation has a fatal flaw - it relies on voluntary measures.