employment equity

British  

noun

1. a policy or programme designed to reserve jobs for people formerly disadvantaged under apartheid

2. a policy or programme designed to ensure equal opportunity in employment

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Example Sentences

Lee Badgett, an economics professor and co-director of the Center for Employment Equity at the University of Massachusetts Amherst.

From Seattle Times

So it was no surprise when, in 1984, she produced a report on employment equity that Lorna R. Marsden, the retired president of York University in Toronto, says, “changed the nature of Canadian workplaces” by requiring all organizations receiving federal funding to file reports on their labor force by gender and the presence of disabled workers, visible minorities and indigenous people.

From Los Angeles Times

His announcement came hours after NJ.com reported the university’s Office of Employment Equity told a woman who accused a professor of sexual misconduct that it doesn’t investigate complaints more than two years old.

From Washington Times

When it comes to diversity, companies often want to shift responsibility to others, according to Donald Tomaskovic-Devey, a sociology professor at the University of Massachusetts Amherst’s Center for Employment Equity.

From Salon

But a collaboration between Reveal and the Center for Employment Equity at the University of Massachusetts Amherst offers the most detailed picture ever of the entire field and allows those that are public to be compared with all their peers.

From Salon