Promoting equality and diversity as a part of the culture of the organizations;.
Essential Hiring Manager responsibilities include collaborating with other departments, posting job advertisements, screening applications, organizing interviews, hiring staff,
promoting equality and diversity at the workplace, negotiating with trade union representatives, and administering payroll and benefits.
We are committed to
promoting equality and diversity on all of our dealings with clients, third parties and employees.
The Junior Lawyers Division runs a variety of events, lectures, and social events as well as looking after and protecting the interests of juniors in the legal profession whilst
promoting equality and diversity.
«There are very many NUT members up and down the country who do exceptional work in
promoting equality and diversity.
Pay equity practices come from a combination of payroll audits, committed leadership and policies that
promote equality and diversity in the workplace.
As part of its commitment to
promote equality and diversity in the legal profession, and to ensure that the Ontario community is served by a representative profession, the Law Society of Upper Canada conducts research and collects data on the composition of the profession.
Equity Officer Emma Halpern received the CBA's national 2013 SOGIC Ally Award, for her efforts on behalf of NSBS to
promote equality and diversity within the profession and wider community.
The service also aims to help those businesses avoid unlawful discrimination and to
promote equality and diversity in their fields.
The awards
promote equality and diversity across the legal profession.
Demonstrated ability to execute and
promote equality and diversity policy.
Not exact matches
Building Bridges is Chelsea FC's campaign to
promote equality, celebrate
diversity and make everyone feel valued throughout our club, stadium
and wider community...
«The GTC's code of conduct requires teachers to «demonstrate respect for
diversity and promote equality» but the decision today makes a mockery of the code.
The New York City march will be «to the doorsteps of [Trump's] tower to
promote the advancement of
equality and human rights for all
diversities.»
The Virginia Affective Neuroscience (VAN) Laboratory
promotes equality,
diversity and inclusion in achieving
and sustaining excellence in our science
and public outreach.
4.7 by 2030 ensure all learners acquire knowledge
and skills needed to
promote sustainable development, including among others through education for sustainable development
and sustainable lifestyles, human rights, gender
equality, promotion of a culture of peace
and non-violence, global citizenship,
and appreciation of cultural
diversity and of culture's contribution to sustainable development
Reference target 4.7: By 2030, ensure all learners acquire knowledge
and skills needed to
promote sustainable development, including among other through education for sustainable development
and sustainable lifestyles, human rights, gender
equality, promotion of a culture of peace
and non-violence, global citizenship,
and appreciation of cultural
diversity and of culture's contribution to sustainable development.
Global citizenship education should provide a new set of core values to develop enhanced knowledge, skills
and, most importantly, attitudes to encourage respect for human rights, social justice,
diversity, gender
equality,
and environmental sustainability among other values that
promote mutual understanding
and constructive relations.
Their outstanding work is improving the lives of children
and young people through excellent care
and education,
and promoting women's
and LGB&T
equality as well as
diversity more widely.»
If ever there was a time for understanding
and promoting diversity and equality issues, it's now.
It was established in response to a call by Nelson Mandela to all South Africans to participate in the building of a new, democratic society that would
promote reconciliation, cultural
diversity,
equality,
and above all, a culture that celebrates human rights.
«By 2030, ensure that all learners acquire the knowledge
and skills needed to
promote sustainable development, including, among others, through education for sustainable development
and sustainable lifestyles, human rights, gender
equality, promotion of a culture of peace
and non-violence, global citizenship
and appreciation of cultural
diversity and of culture's contribution to sustainable development,» the global plan for 2030 states.
What seems to sticking in some Ontario lawyers» craw is the recommendation that every lawyer
and paralegal will be required to adopt
and to abide by a statement of principles acknowledging their obligation to
promote equality,
diversity and inclusion generally
and in their behavior towards colleagues, employees, clients
and the public.
This duty has evolved, along with the definition of what is a just society, to encompass the obligation of members to
promote equality,
diversity and inclusion generally,
and in members» behaviour towards colleagues, employees, clients
and the public.»
Further, as Anne Vespry also pointed out, why should a lawyer who belongs to a racialized minority, who has to deal with the burdens of inequality
and exclusion every day, have to further sign on to an additional responsibility to
promote equality,
diversity and inclusion?
My sense from reading some of the criticism directed at the Law Society is that the critics are uncomfortable with the Law Society imposing moral values on its licensees: because the value
and parameters of inclusion,
equality and diversity are contested
and unclear, the Law Society ought not to require its members to acknowledge a duty to
promote them.
I'm not being asked to acknowledge my duty to accommodate under the Code within my workplace», I'm being asked to acknowledge my purported obligation to
promote «
equality,
diversity and inclusion generally».
Now, I think your argument is the more definitive argument — the LSUC folks have a suspect interpretation of the Charter, which they seem to think allows them to violate charter rights willy nilly, whereas the absence of an obligation to «
promote equality,
diversity and inclusion» is incontestable.
I note that the words «
promote», «
equality», «
diversity», «inclusion»
and «generally» do not appear in that Rule or the commentary thereto.
If lawyers actually have an obligation to «
promote equality,
diversity and inclusion» generally, proponents for that proposition should be able to readily identify express language binding on members identifying such an obligation.
We also do not think that the language of «
promoting equality,
diversity and inclusion» is so vague as to set an impossible standard of professional regulation.
It is only to say that strategies to
promote equality,
diversity and inclusion are much more likely to be at effective at the institutional level than the individual.
Does the Recommendation mean that licensees have a general responsibility to
promote equality,
diversity and inclusion beyond their professional activities?
Second, it should be obvious that this can not be the basis for the LSUC's claim that lawyers have a duty to «
promote equality,
diversity and inclusion generally».
What sections of the Occupational Health
and Safety Act
and the Accessibility for Ontarians with Disabilities Act impose an obligation on employers (or anyone else) to ««
promote»
equality,
diversity,
and inclusion»?
Provided there is in fact a legally established duty on Ontario lawyers to
promote equality,
diversity and inclusion, then there is no reason whatsoever why licensees can not be required to acknowledge that duty,
and identify strategies for accomplishing it.
Far more useful would be requiring law firms, organizations, corporations
and law schools to have that positive obligation to
promote equality,
diversity and inclusion.
Is it the duty of the individual lawyer to
promote equality,
diversity and inclusion or is it the duty of the law society or regulating body to do so?
We are dismissing the claim that lawyers have a duty to
promote equality,
diversity and inclusion generally as lacking legal authority, because there is no legal basis for that claim..
The Rules comply with that obligation by clearly stating our obligations — that they don't expressly impose an obligation to «
promote equality,
diversity and inclusion generally» is evidence that no such obligation exists.
The Law Society has an obligation to
promote human rights in the legal profession
and licensees are already bound by human rights
equality,
diversity and inclusion principles under their respective professional rules of conduct
and the Code.»
First, if one accepts that the obligation to acknowledge one's duty to «
promote equality,
diversity and inclusion generally» is a form of compelled speech, then it's hard to see how such an obligation can be justified under section 1, given that no such obligation actually exists — hard to see how an obligation to acknowledge a non-existent obligation is a reasonable limitation that can be justified in a free
and democratic society.
I keep coming back to this point — if lawyers have an obligation to «
promote equality,
diversity and inclusion generally» it should be easy to provide authority for that obligation.
Even in - house counsel, providing advice to the HR department about an organization's internal legal obligations, would be incompetent if they did not convey the employer's obligation to
promote equality,
diversity,
and inclusion as described above.
In any event, we'll know soon enough which one of us is right, a Professor from Lakehead is seeking a judicial declaration that — inter alia — lawyers are not subject to an obligation to «
promote equality,
diversity and inclusion generally»: http://mailchi.mp/theccf/canadian-constitution-foundation-to-challenge-law-societys-new-ideological-test-2613233
Conversely, does the Recommendation mean that licensees must
promote equality,
diversity and inclusion in their professional practices only?
Like you, I believe that there are strategies the LSUC could pursue which would achieve their substantive goals, strategies which accurately reflect existing (
and unambiguous) legal
and ethical obligations
and which are consistent with constitutional requirements
and principles (as I've noted above, if the current requirement around a Statement of Principle merely required acknowledgement of our actual existing obligations under the Rules, rather than a general duty to
promote equality,
diversity and inclusion which is found nowhere in the Rules, I suspect much opposition would melt away
and the LSUC would be on far stronger Charter grounds).
«We concluded that
promoting means «to encourage»
and encouraging
equality,
diversity and inclusion is indeed something more than not discriminating.
Imagine that individual lawyers did have a duty to
promote equality, inclusion
and diversity.
We wondered whether the obligation on licensees to «
promote»
equality,
diversity and inclusion is something wholly different than a mere obligation to not discriminate;
and further, we were uncertain what
promoting equality,
diversity and inclusion «generally» meant (discussed below).