Manitoba Civil Service Commission
Employment Equity
The Government of Manitoba is committed to Diversity and Employment Equity in order to create a civil service that is representative of the citizens of Manitoba that we serve. There are four designated groups: women, persons with a disability, Aboriginal persons and visible minorities. We encourage current employees or potential applicants to declare when applying for job opportunities. Employment Equity declarations are kept in the strictest of confidence.
Government of Manitoba policy on employment equity in staffing:
Employment equity is a factor in the staffing process when a designated group is underrepresented in the level, class, series or occupation within the department and across government.
For more information on how selections are based on merit, fairness and equity, please refer to our policy on Staffing Principles.
Designated Groups
The Employment Equity Policy designates four groups:
- Women
- Aboriginal - (Persons of North American Aboriginal ancestry including First Nation, (status and non-status Indians), Inuit and Metis).
- Person with a Disability - (Persons who have a long-term or recurring impairment and consider themselves to be disadvantaged in employment by reasons of that impairment, or believe an employer or potential employer is likely to consider them to be disadvantaged in employment by reasons of that impairment, and persons whose functional limitations owing to their impairment have been accommodated in their current job or workplace.)
- Visible Minority - (Persons other than Aboriginal people, who because of their race or colour, are a visible minority). Examples of Visible Minority include Black (e.g. African, Haitian, Jamaican, Somali), South Asian (e.g. East Indian, Pakistani, Punjabi, Sri Lankan), South East Asian (e.g. Cambodian, Indonesian, Laotian, Vietnamese) Arab / West Asian (e.g. Armenian, Egyptian, Iranian, Lebanese, Moroccan) Chinese, Filipino, Latin American, Japanese, Korean.
Use of "Preference" and "Designated" in the selection process:
- Preference is a special measure that allows for the appointment of persons from one or more designated groups. Applying Preference means that if one of more individuals within a particular designated group meet all the essential criteria then the one with the highest ranking will be selected. If there is no candidate from that designated group who meets all the essential criteria then a non-designated qualified candidate may be selected.
- Designated employment equity means having a competition where only designated employment equity members are eligible to apply for the position. if no qualified designated candidate(s) meet the essential criteria then the Department would rebulletin or conduct further outreach.
Declaration
Declaration refers to the process where individuals identify themselves as belonging to one or more of the designated groups for Employment Equity. Candidates and current employees can declare in a number of ways:
- completing the Civil Service application form
- completing the declaration form
- declaring in their cover letter and resume
- responding to the selection board's questions related to the Employment Equity criterion followed by a written declaration
- responding to a department-wide workforce survey
- sending a memo to Human Resources.
