Translation of "Staffing Measures for Under-Represented Groups " (English → French) :

— increase higher education participation among low income groups and other under-represented groups with special regard to disadvantaged people, including people from marginalised communities.

The government will introduce measures to streamline processes and increase funding to better integrate and enable access for certain under-represented groups in the labour force, including immigrants, persons with special needs, youth, aboriginal peoples and older Canadians.

- In seeking to be more representative and in accordance with the Employment Equity (EE) program, departments may decide, as a special measure when other options to eliminate under-representativeness are unlikely to be successful, to limit recruitment to one or more of the equity groups.

(18) In addition to ensuring that the insurance undertaking has a representative in the State where the injured party resides, it is appropriate to guarantee the specific right of the injured party to have the claim settled promptly; it is therefore necessary to include in national law appropriate effective and systematic financial or equivalent administrative penalties - such as injunctions combined with administrative fines, reporting to supervisory authorities on a regular basis, on-the-spot checks, publications in the national official journal and in the press, suspension of the activities of the company (prohibition on the conclusion of new contracts for a certain period), designation of a special representative of the supervisory aut ...[+++]horities responsible for monitoring that the business is run in line with insurance laws, withdrawal of the authorisation for this business line, sanctions to be imposed on directors and management staff - in the event that the insurance undertaking or its representative fails to fulfil its obligation to make an offer of compensation within a reasonable time-limit; this should not prejudice the application of any other measure - especially under supervisory law - which may be considered appropriate; however, it is a condition that liability and the damage and injury sustained should not be in dispute, so that the insurance undertaking is able to make a reasoned offer within the prescribed time-limit; the reasoned offer of compensation should be in writing and contain the grounds on the basis of which liability and damages have been assessed.

Annex Examples of positive action measures which remain untouched by the Kalanke judgement - Quotas linked to the qualifications required for the job, as long as they allow account to be taken of particular circumstances which might, in a given case, justify an exception to the principle of giving preference to the under-represented sex; - Plans for promoting women, prescribing the proportions and the time limits within which the number of women should be increased but without imposing an automatic preference rule when individual dec ...[+++]isions on recruitment and promotion are taken; - An obligation of principle for an employer to recruit or promote by preference a person belonging to the under-represented sex; in such a case, no individual right to be preferred is conferred on any person; - Reductions of social security contributions which are granted to firms when they recruit women who return to the labour market, to perform tasks in sectors where women are under-represented; - State subventions granted to employers who recruit women in sectors where they are under-represented; - Other positive action measures focusing on training, professional orientation, the reorganization of working time, child-care and so on.

Because the number of seats within a province is fixed, if one group is over represented another group must be under represented.