Exam 16: Representative Bureaucracy and Employment Equity

Which category encompasses most of the low-paid and low-skilled positions?

Who has the authority to set the criteria for all non-advertised appointment processes in their departments?

In addition to the Public Service Commission, which other federal agency has also played a leading role in developing, monitoring, and implementing employment equity?

Which statement accurately describes the representation of Francophones in the public service?

Visible minorities are the only designated group that has been historically over-represented in the federal public service.

What is another name for the Abella Commission?

Bargaining units will be accountable for achieving equitable compensation for their members by demonstrating that they were actively engaged in pursuing that objective in the collecting bargaining process.

Which province does NOT have any pay equity law or framework?

Among the four designated groups, visible minorities are still consistently slightly under-represented in the Executive group.

What is another term for "Equal pay for work of equal value"?

As of 2015, which of the following groups make up the lowest percentage of workforce availability?

Which of the following groups require more representation at the executive level?

Employment equity means something completely different than affirmative action.

Pay equity programs try to devise a job evaluation method that removes sex biases from job classifications.

Pay Equity stands for " equal pay for equal work."

Increased representation has effects that are not covered by the theory of representative bureaucracy.

Which of the following laid out the legal basis for affirmative action programs that eventually led to the establishment of the Canadian Human Rights Commission?

Which section stipulates that preferential treatment for groups that have historically been disadvantaged does not constitute reverse discrimination?

Departments and agencies are required to run employment equity programs to promote representativeness and fairness in the public service.

More than 40 percent of Aboriginal public servants work in just three organizations.Which of the following is NOT one of the three organizations?