Major changes in Canadian society will take place over the next decade as numbers of immigrants are forecast to continue steady growth through 2020. These demographic changes offer challenges—and huge opportunities—to Canadian employers. Diversity! in the Workplace sought the views of three experts on what significance this has for our workforce and how ready Canadian are employers to adapt to change.

The strongest injection of immigrant talent into Canada’s workforce in the past decade has come from Southeast Asia—and the Philippines, in particular.

A report published by the national organization representing Canada’s off-reserve native population calling for great accountability on funding of aboriginal programs has been called “deeply flawed,” by the Assembly of First Nations (AFN).

Women wanting to succeed in a career became familiar long ago with a range of challenges and barriers. Now two more studies suggest at least two additional barriers to women’s goals of succeeding in business -- even their own business.

Ottawa has signed a new agreement with Ontario to help workers improve their skills and get better jobs.

The funding is intended to help people often excluded from the labour force get the training they need to find sustainable employment. Those include aboriginal people, immigrants, people with disabilities, as well as those workers who lack literacy and essential skills.

When the Civility Group first started its focus was on good manners and etiquette but the focus quickly changed. Today, the organization concentrates on communication skills and civility. “The last 4 or 5 years, we would go into workplaces and teach them how to behave with each other and then we discovered there were all of these undercurrents of bigger issues related to culture and related to equality and so on ...[ read more ]

Will The Blind Worker Have A Guide Dog? Do I Have To Let Him Bring It To Work?
How Will A Blind Employee Read Memos And Other Printed Material?
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One of this year’s Super Bowl ads provides a humorous take on two deaf men who cannot find the Super Bowl party at a friend's house. The ad was devised, written and acted by PepsiCo. employees with disabilities, and it illustrates how the company values its workers with disabilities.