Following the transition to democracy in 1994, the African National Congress-led government chose to implement affirmative action legislation to correct previous imbalances ( a policy known as Employment Equity ).

The Employment Equity Act and the Broad Based Black Economic Empowerment Act aim to promote and achieve equality in the workplace ( in South Africa termed " equity "), by advancing people from designated groups.

Employment Equity also forms part of a company's Black Economic Empowerment scorecard: in a relatively complex scoring system, which allows for some flexibility in the manner in which each company meets its legal commitments, each company is required to meet minimum requirements in terms of representation by previously disadvantaged groups.

The policies of Employment Equity and, particularly, Black Economic empowerment have been criticised both by those who view them as discriminatory against white people, and by those who view them as ineffectual.

The University of Newcastle, in New South Wales, Australia, houses CofFEE, the Centre of Full Employment and Equity, an active educational, research and collaborative organisation whose focus is on policies " restoring full employment " and achieving an economy that delivers " equitable outcomes for all ".

It includes measures such as Employment Equity, skills development, ownership, management, socio-economic development and preferential procurement.

Under the Employment Equity Act, First Nations are a " designated group ", along with women, visible minorities, and persons with physical or mental disabilities.

From 1991 to 1995, she was Employment Equity Commissioner of Ontario.

The CAV development was made possible with the financial support of the European Union and the South African government, through the Sector-Wide Support Enterprise, Employment and Equity Programme ( SWEEEP ).

However, the racial categories defined in the Act remain ingrained in South African culture and they still form the basis of some official policies, aimed at correcting past economic imbalances ( Black Economic Empowerment and Employment Equity ).

He has contributed articles to the Canadian Employment and Equity Rights newsletter, as well as Workplace News and Canadian Corporate Counsel, and has been a Co-Instructor at the University of Guelph, Office of Open Learning, for courses on occupational health and safety law, negotiations and contract administration.

* Legislated Employment Equity Program, which is covered in the article Employment equity ( Canada )

For example, in Ontario, pay equality is guaranteed through the Ontario Employment Standards Act while pay equity is guaranteed through the Ontario Pay Equity Act.

The Minister of Labour and Housing is responsible for HRSDC's " Labour Program " and thus is responsible for the Canada Labour Code, the Employment Equity Act, the Federal Mediation and Conciliation Service as well as the implementation of health and safety legislation.

The term is used primarily in Canada, as a demographic category by Statistics Canada, in connection with that country's Employment Equity policies.

Members of visible minorities are defined by the Canadian Employment Equity Act as " persons, other than Aboriginal people, who are non-Caucasian in race or non-white in colour.

According to the Employment Equity Act of 1995, the definition of visible minority is:

The term “ non-white ” is used in the wording of the Employment Equity Act and in employment equity questionnaires distributed to applicants and employees.

* Code 300 – Employment Equity

The BEE legislation is supported and functions in conjunction with various other forms of Legislation, including the Employment Equity Act, Skills Development Act, Preferential Procurement Framework and others.

The sense of a job guarantee program is used and advocated by some schools of Post-Keynesian economists, notably Neo-Chartalists in the Kansas City School of Economics and the Australian Centre of Full Employment and Equity, who advocate it as a solution for unemployment.

On 30 June 1939 legislation ceased the CCC program to be an independent agency, transferred to the Federal Security Agency along with the Social Security Board, National Youth Administration, U. S. Employment Service, the Office of Education and the Works Progress Administration.

In 1974, along with Rep. Augustus Hawkins of California, Humphrey authored the Humphrey-Hawkins Full Employment Act, the first attempt at full employment legislation.

The Full Employment and Balanced Growth Act ( known informally as the Humphrey – Hawkins Full Employment Act ), is an act of legislation by the United States government.

The language of the Full Employment and Balanced Growth Act was amended twice by riders attached to unrelated or distantly related legislation.

The relevant legislation is the Employment Act ( 1946 ), initially the " Full Employment Act ," later amended in the Full Employment and Balanced Growth Act ( 1978 ).

* Employment Rights Act 1996, legislation in the United Kingdom

* Employment Relations Act 2000, a New Zealand piece of legislation

Title VII has been supplemented with legislation prohibiting pregnancy, age, and disability discrimination ( See Pregnancy Discrimination Act of 1978, Age Discrimination in Employment Act, Americans with Disabilities Act of 1990 ).

Among the many causes he championed were educational programs for exceptional children, recognition of alcoholism as a health problem, the Metropolitan Planning Commission in the Twin Cities, and the Fair Employment Practices Act ( Minnesota was the fifth state to pass legislation around this issue ).

Minimum wage for labour is covered by Employment Standards legislation and is governed at the provincial level.

Richardson introduced deunionisation legislation, known as the Employment Contracts Act, in 1991, while Shipley presided over social welfare benefit cuts, designed to reduce " welfare dependency "-both core New Right policy initiatives.

* Summaries of EU legislation > Employment and social policy > Social dialogue and employee participation > Statute for a European Cooperative Society

The government of Leslie Frost was the first to pass laws providing penalties for racial, ethnic, and gender discrimination on private property ; these laws, introduced in the early 1950s as the Fair Employment Practices Act and Fair Accommodation Practices Act, started a movement in Ontario politics that produced the Ontario Human Rights Code in 1962 and later legislation.

The Employment Non-Discrimination Act ( ENDA ) is legislation proposed in the United States Congress that would prohibit discrimination in hiring and employment on the basis of sexual orientation or gender identity by civilian, nonreligious employers with at least 15 employees.

The law was the successor to the previous federal job training legislation, the Comprehensive Employment and Training Act ( CETA ).

Kyrillos was a primary co-sponsor of legislation creating the Business Employment Incentive Program, which provides government grants to companies that hire employees in New Jersey.

Other amendments were introduced by the Sex Discrimination Act 1986, the Employment Act 1989, the Equality Act 2006, and other legislation such as rulings by the European Court of Justice.

According to Barak's approach, which was adopted by the Supreme Court, the Constitutional Revolution brought values such as the Right to Equality, Freedom of Employment and Freedom of Speech to a position of normative supremacy, and thereby granted the courts ( not just the Supreme Court ) the ability to strike down legislation which is inconsistent with the rights embodied in the Basic Laws.

* the preparation of the finance law ( budget ) ( with the help of his colleague Minister for the Economy, Industry and Employment in taxation ruling matters, he requires the Board for Tax Policy of the Direction générale des impôts ), which is then submitted to Parliament for amendment and final approval ;

The Organiser II was widely used for commercial applications in companies such as Marks and Spencer, where it was used on the shop floor, and in the world's first large scale application of mobile technology in government where over 3000 were used for benefit calculations by the Employment Services department of the UK government.

Today Żary, which is a county seat, features headquarters of many offices and institutions, used by residents of this part of the region, including the Tax Office, Social Insurance Institution, Employment Office, 8 bank branches, insurance companies, high schools, and the Lusatian Higher School of the Humanities.

jointly leading the Clyde Shipyards Taskforce to help modernise shipbuilding on the Clyde through investment in skills, and in the face of the global downturn in electronics hitting companies such as Motorola launched what became the PACE ( Partnership for Continuing Employment ) initiative to help those made redundant find work quickly.

Ten companies selected the firm for its work in the areas of Corporate Transactions / Mergers & Acquisitions and Securities, Intellectual Property, Labor & Employment and Litigation.

Employment for many is at the many companies of nearby Wiri, Papakura, and at the steel mill at Glenbrook.

For example, the United States Equal Employment Opportunity Commission reported that in 2005, companies paid out more than $ 378 million dollars in discrimination non-litigated settlements.