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Out of sight, out of work: part one
BY IAN SUTTON |
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Fifty-six percent of Canadians with disabilities are unemployed and now face even greater challenges in efforts to become contributing members of society. Many of those challenges hinge on more than one factor, according to advocates for those with disabilities.
Ivana Petricone, executive director of the Toronto-based ARCH Disability Law Centre, says, “The premise is that the downturn in the economy has had a sort of undue impact on people with disabilities and their ability to work and keep work.”
There’s a need—as well as a legal duty—on the part of employers to provide accommodation to those with a disability in their workplaces. Many are now contending...[ read more ] |
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| 10:1 Stu Rasmussen |
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Stu Rasmussen is the mayor of his hometown Silverton, Oregon. He’s been elected to that office three times. But that’s not what makes him unusual. Rasmussen is the first openly transgendered mayor in the United States, and he has the breast implants to prove it...
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| ETC global news briefs |
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Canada
RBC has launched its Next Great Innovator competition to get post-secondary students to think beyond campus life and reflect on their futures in the workplace. The competition has a total of $45,000 in prize money and asks Canadian college and university students to suggest innovative methods or tactics to transform the workplace to match the needs of an evolving and diverse workforce. Now in its third year, the challenge has attracted over 550 entries from schools across the country and $125,000 in prize money has been awarded. For more details, www.nextgreatinnovator.com...[ read more ] |
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| MVP diversity champions |
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| The Central Vancouver Island Multicultural Society (CVIMS) paid tribute to the following organizations and individuals with its Annual Diversity Champion Awards: Ellen White (individual), Zonta Club of Nanaimo (group), School District 68 Multicultural and Race Relations Committee (public institution), and Inuktun Services Ltd (small business). CVIMS was also the recipient of the Affiliation of Multicultural Societies and Service Agencies of BC’s Riasat Ali Khan Diversity Award 2009...[ read more ] |
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Ask a Consultant
BY EVELINA SILVEIRA |
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Dear Diversity@Work:
I am the person in my organization who is responsible for coordinating the training programs. I put a lot of effort into advertising different kinds of diversity training and I seem to get the same people all the time. I also get very few people signed up for this in comparison to other kinds of training that we offer here. What do you think the problem is?
Tired Trainer
Dear Tired Trainer:
The problem that you have is not a new one. I have heard this many times, across a number of different organizations and businesses. So, what do you do about it? My feeling is that.. [ read more ] |
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POV To Include or To Exlcude: That is the question...
BY TIM HOLDEN |
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What is inclusivity?
The best definition I could find was “the fact or policy of not excluding members or participants on the grounds of gender, race, age, sexual orientation, disability etc.” This begs the question: Why would a forward-thinking organization not want to create and maintain an inclusive culture?...[ read more ] |
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Become a Diversity Champion: How to Champion for Change and Create Opportunities for Inclusion
BY KRISTA MAYDEW & ROBERTA NEAULT |
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| When you hear someone talking about diversity in the workplace, people often assume the discussion is about cultural or ethnic diversity. Although programs to increase diversity in the workplace have been used by both public and private sector employers for many years, the main focus has typically been on increasing representation of women, visible minorities, Aboriginals, and sometimes, persons with disabilities. However, diversity in its broadest sense is inclusive of all people. In our own diversity work, we use the term to describe a wide-range of differences, including but not limited to.... [ read more ] |
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