Employment Equity Groups
In the Employment Equity Act, the four designated groups are defined
as
- Women
- Aboriginal peoples: persons who are Indians, Inuit or Métis
- Persons with disabilities: persons who have a long-term or
recurring physical, mental, sensory, psychiatric or learning impairment
and who
- consider themselves to be disadvantaged in employment by
reason of that impairment, or
- believe that an employer or potential employer is likely to
consider them to be disadvantaged in employment by reason of
that impairment
and includes persons whose functional limitations owing to their
impairment have been accommodated in their current job or workplace
- Members of visible minorities: persons, other than Aboriginal
peoples, who are non-Caucasian in race or non-white in colour