Employment Equity Policy
Dalhousie's Employment Equity Policy establishes the university’s commitment to employment equity and outlines how employment equity will be implemented throughout the University.
Dalhousie’s Policy is consistent with the federal Employment Equity Act and the Nova Scotia Human Rights Act.
Dalhousie will seek to:
1. Remove barriers to and in employment by eliminating or modifying policies, practices, and systems that are not authorized by law;
2. Introduce positive policies and practices, as well as establish internal goals and timetables to achieve employment equity through hiring, training, promotion, and retention of members of Equity-Seeking Groups;
3. Improve the meaningful participation and engagement of Equity-Seeking Groups throughout Dalhousie; and
4. Improve workplace environments and climate for Equity-Seeking Groups through individual and organizational capacity building and ensuring timely responses to complaints of inequitable systems and practices.
Dalhousie wishes to institute active measures to eliminate discrimination and to reverse the historic under-representation within its workforce of:
- Indigenous peoples (especially Mi’kmaq)
- Members of racialized minority groups (especially historic African Nova Scotians)
- Persons with disabilities
- Women
- Persons belonging to sexual orientation and/or gender identity (SOGI) minority groups
Approved by: President, Richard Florizone, October 2, 2017