Employment Equity Positive Measures
Program (EEPMP)
The Employment
Equity Positive Measures Program (EEPMP), which was approved to help build
employment equity capacity in the federal government, concluded on March
31, 2002 after four years in operation.
Directed
by the objective of achieving a representative Public Service, the goal
of the EEPMP was to ensure greater integration of employment equity practices
in the workplace by providing information, tools and skills development.
Principal
components of the EEPMP
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EE Partnership Fund fostered 127 regionally driven projects designed to improve representation
of employment equity groups and to remove identified barriers to
employment equity groups. These projects range from recruitment and
retention to career development, learning and cultural change.
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EE
Career Development Office promoted
and facilitated continuous learning and knowledge transfer for
sustained employment equity career development within departments
and regions.
The Office has built a Diversity
Collection of relevant literature,
commissioned a research
paper on the use of standardized tests
utilized by counsellors and psychologists with EE group members,
developed
a 45-hour course on EE Career Counselling as well as a 2-module
course (2 days each) on Communication within a Diverse Workforce
-- A Skills
Approach.
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Enabling Resource Centre provided
personalized operational advice to assist managers to help
understand, clarify, respond to, and accommodate the concerns
of employees
with disabilities with the objective of helping departments to move
towards self-sufficiency in achieving employment equity objectives,
including the accommodation of persons with disabilities.
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EE
Intervention supported initiatives which addressed unique
issues across departmental lines or those identified in departments'
EE Business
Plans and audits of the Canadian Human Rights Commission, with
a focus on national projects contributing to the overall employment
equity
performance of the federal Public Service.
The EEPMP recorded numerous accomplishments during its
operation. Further, it left an important legacy of knowledge upon which
future employment equity efforts can be built. For more information, consult
the following links:
The
PSC will continue to assist departments and agencies, managers and HR
advisors with staffing guidance, programs, policies and tools to help
them meet the challenge of building and sustaining a competent, non-partisan
and representative workforce.
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