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Employment and Equity
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 ).
Employment Equity legislation requires companies employing more than 50 people to design and implement plans to improve the representativity of workforce demographics, and report them to the Department of Labour
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.

Employment and Act
less than a score of years later Congress enacted the Employment Act of 1946, by which the national government assumed the responsibility of taking action to insure conditions of maximum employment.
The Wage and Employment Effects of the Americans with Disabilities Act.
* Employment and Training Act 1948
The first significant modern day Employment Law Act was the Equal Pay Act of 1970 although as it was a somewhat radical concept it did not come into effect until 1972.
The Age Discrimination in Employment Act of 1967 prohibits employment discrimination based on age with respect to employees 40 years of age or older.
In 2010, the Times published an editorial opposing the Employment Non-Discrimination Act because it granted legal protective status for transgender people.
The worst of the Depression had passed by 1935, and King implemented relief programs such as the National Housing Act and National Employment Commission.
An earlier attempt to create an Employment and Social Insurance Act during the Great Depression had been ruled to be unconstitutional, since unemployment assistance was judged by the courts to be a provincial responsibility.
He continued work on the Fair Housing Act, and worked to strengthen the state's Fair Employment Practices Commission ( FEPC ).
In 1974, along with Rep. Augustus Hawkins of California, Humphrey authored the Humphrey-Hawkins Full Employment Act, the first attempt at full employment legislation.
A watered-down version called the Full Employment and Balanced Growth Act passed the House and Senate in 1978.
Many of Telford's projects were undertaken due to his role as a member of the Exchequer Bill Loan Commission, an organ set up under the Poor Employment Act of 1817, to help finance public work projects that would generate employment.
* 1946: Employment Act PL 79-304
* 1973: Comprehensive Employment and Training Act PL 93-203
* 1978: Full Employment and Balanced Growth Act PL 95-523
* 1996: Veterans Employment Opportunities Act PL 105-339
The Employment of Women, Young Persons and Children Act ( 1920 ) prohibited the employment of children below the limit of compulsory school age in railways and transport undertakings, building and engineering construction works, factories, and mines.
The Sex Discrimination Act ( 1975 ) gave women the right in principle to equal access to jobs and equal treatment at work with men, while the Employment Protection Act introduced statutory maternity leave.
The Employment Protection Act of 1975 set up the Advisory, Conciliation and Arbitration Services ( ACAS ) to arbitrate in industrial disputes, enlarged the rights of employees and trade unions, extended the redundancy payments scheme, and provided redress against unfair dismissal.
# REDIRECT Humphrey – Hawkins Full Employment Act
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.

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