In Canada, Employment Equity (EE) was designed to overcome and remedy barriers that certain groups systematically face in the Canadian labour market. These groups usually are Aboriginals, women, minorities and disabled persons. Given that each group is unique with its own history and needs, it is hard to design an all-inclusive EE approach for all of them at the same. Therefore, EE is a complex set of policies that may include variety of things, like child care, abolition of unreasonable employment requirements, numerical targets and so on (Charlton, 1994 & Abu-Laban, 2002). Issues related to EE are inherently related to social justice and social rights (Abu-Laban, 2002). It is argued that if justice is to be served, employment disparities must be remedied through the introduction of EE (Charlton, 1994). But as research shows, EE produced meager results, is highly misunderstood by the public and is still unable to overcome labour phenomena of “glass ceiling” and “sticky floor”. Continue reading →

If Ontario’s election campaign is really about improving the lot of families, attention ought to focus on the province’s unemployed youth.
Ontario’s 15-per-cent youth jobless rate – higher than the national average and twice the province’s overall rate – isn’t just dispiriting for the thousands of job seekers who are seeing their aspirations fade and skills atrophy. Continue reading →

Summer 2011 – Young Professionals and Skilled Workers Association conducted series of successful workshops on how to wage political campaigns in Ukraine to a selective group of potential candidates in Kyiv, capital of Ukraine.
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Summer 2011 – Young Professionals and Skilled Workers Association conducted series of successful workshops on how to wage political campaigns in Ukraine to a selective group of potential candidates in Kyiv, capital of Ukraine. Continue reading →