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With each of your answers, indicate as well the relevant section number from the Act.
Q. 1 Which one of these statements is incorrect?
a) information on the identity of designated group members is confidential
b) information on members of the four designated groups is obtained through
self-identification
c) the four designated groups are Aboriginal peoples, visible minorities, persons with
disabilities and women
d) gays or lesbians are not recognized as a designated group
e) an employer may identify a designated group member if he or she agrees to be identified
Q. 2 Select the correct answer:
Employment equity plans
a) are protected documents for use only by departmental managers, TBS and CHRC
compliance officers
b) must be tabled each year before Parliament along with the annual employment equity
report
c) must not cover a period exceeding three years
d) are not required when no underrepresentation has been identified
e) none of the above
Q. 3 True or false:
Where underrepresentation has been identified, employment equity plans must contain
a) longer term numerical goals?
b) recruitment and promotion quotas?
c) short term numerical promotion goals?
d) timetables for consultations with employees' representatives?
Q. 4 Which one of these statements is incorrect?
a) The new EEA covers the federally regulated private sector, federal Crown
Corporations, federal contractors and the federal Public Service
b) The new EEA enables the CHRC to audit all organizations subject to the Act
c) The new EEA broadens the scope of the previous FAA provisions by requiring that
employees' representatives not only be consulted on the implementation of employment
equity but that they also collaborate with employers to prepare the employment equity
plans
d) The new EEA subjects the Canadian Forces and the RCMP to the Act but delays the actual
application of the provisions of the Act to these organizations until the taking of an
Order in Council
Q. 5 Choose the statement that summarizes best the Purpose of the Act (s. 2):
a) employment equity means equal pay for work of equal value
b) employment equity means providing equal treatment to all employees
c) employment equity means never having to say you are sorry
d) employment equity means managing human resources in such a manner that employees are
all on an equal footing for employment opportunities
e) employment equity means redressing past discrimination by providing special advantages
to certain employees
Q. 6 What term is defined in the Act by these words and in which section?
"A requirement to hire or promote a fixed and arbitrary number of persons during a
given period"
Q. 7 In chronological order, what would be the first steps in the sequence for
enforcing the majority of the obligations contained in the Act?
a) complaint, designation of compliance officer, security requirements, all reasonable
assistance to compliance officer, compliance audit, written undertaking, written
direction(s) by CHRC compliance officer
b) designation of compliance officer, security requirements, compliance audit, all
reasonable assistance to compliance officer, written undertaking, written direction(s) by
CHRC compliance officer
c) designation of compliance officer, security requirements, all reasonable assistance to
compliance officer, compliance audit, written undertaking, written direction(s) by CHRC
compliance officer
d) designation of compliance officer, security requirements, all reasonable assistance to
compliance officer, compliance audit, written undertaking, written direction(s) by
CHRC
Q. 8 Name at least one obligation contained in the Act that is not enforceable by the
CHRC (hint: see section 25)
Q. 9 Select the correct answer:
The annual report of the President of the Treasury Board on employment equity must be
tabled before Parliament
a) within six months of the end of each fiscal year, at the same time reports of
separate employers are tabled
b) within 12 months of the end of each fiscal year
c) on the 29th of February of each year
d) before the Department of Human Resources Development and the Canadian Human Rights
Commission table their respective annual report
Q. 10 Select the correct answer:
An order of an Employment Equity Review Tribunal is final
a) unless one of the parties uses the appeals procedure contained in the Act
b) unless the Tribunal has exceeded its jurisdiction, neglected important facts or made an
obvious mistake
c) unless one of the parties convinces a judge of the Federal Court that the employment
equity expertise of the Tribunal members is insufficient under ss. 28(3)
d) unless the order imposes a quota on an employer that would cause undue hardship
Q. 11 True or false:
Where there is underrepresentation, the Act requires public sector employers to hire
personnel regardless of merit.
Q. 12 As an employment equity compliance officer, you want to verify compliance of
employers with the Act. How long will you have to wait before you can audit an
organization which just became an employer under the Act?
a) I do not have to wait
b) I have to wait at least 24 months after the date on which the organization became an
employer subject to the Act
c) I have to wait for an invitation to audit from the employer!
Q. 13 True or false:
Annual employment equity reports produced by separate employers contain information
identical to that of the President of the Treasury Board?
Q. 14 True or false:
Sub-section 4(1) applies to
a) private sector employers which employ one hundred or more employees?
b) federal departments and agencies which employ one hundred of more employees and for
which Treasury Board is the employer?
c) separate employers which employ one hundred of more employees?
d) RCMP police stations which employ one hundred or more employees?
Q. 15 True or false:
When non-compliance has been found, in order to negotiate a written undertaking in a
collaborative way, the CHRC must issue a written direction to the employer.
Q. 16 Select the correct answer:
A short term numerical goal
a) requires employers to correct the underrepresentation of persons in a designated
group over a period of three years maximum, taking into account a number of factors such
as availability of qualified designated group members
b) is another name for numerical target or numerical objective, which all amount to quotas
c) is a goal you will have completely forgotten over the longer term
d) seeks to increase the share of recruitments and promotions of certain groups to reduce
underrepresentation
Q. 17 Select the correct answer:
Statistically based complaints related to designated group members under the Canadian
Human Rights Act
a) are not allowed since the new Employment Equity Act received Royal Assent
b) will not be allowed anymore if the employer has addressed the matter in its employment
equity plan
c) will not be allowed anymore if the employer does not employ one hundred employees or
more
d) will not be allowed anymore if they are based on statistics produced by Statistics
Canada
e) none of the above
Q. 18 Because of a Cabinet shuffle, the new President of the Treasury Board has not
tabled her annual employment equity report by the legal deadline. What penalty could she
face?
a) go to bed without dessert
b) $50,000 fine for each day past the deadline
c) 30 days of community work
d) public embarrassment
e) b) and c) combined
Q. 19 What minister(s) must be consulted before the Governor in Council
a) makes regulations under the Act that apply to the public sector?
b) makes specific regulations to adapt the Act or the regulations to take into account
operational effectiveness?
Q. 20 If an employment equity plan contains all of these:
1) reasonable accommodation measures over a period of one year
2) measures for the elimination of employment barriers over a period of two years
3) short term numerical goals over a period of three years
4) and longer term goals over a period of five years
At a minimum, at which frequency should an employer review this plan: once every ???
year(s)
Legislation and Policy -- Employment Equity
Employment Equity Division
Human Resources Branch
Treasury Board Secretariat
February 19, 1998
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