For federally regulated employers, the way that diversity surveys are conducted might soon be changing.
New categories of employees are being proposed which means HR departments will have some work to do to ensure these surveys reflect the new reality, says an employment lawyer.
“Of the 182 recommendations that have been made, the main things we would want employers to know is just the creation of the new separate categories, one being the creation of Black workers as a separate designated group under the Act, and the creation of 2SLGBTQ-plus workers as a new and separate designated group,” says Grace McDonell, associate at Fasken in Toronto.
