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An inclusive group that supports LGBTQ2S employees to bring their whole selves to work, to achieve their full potential and to deliver excellent public service. Organizes events and advocates for a safer, more equitable and respectful working environment for LGBTQ2S employees of the TPS.
What is Pride Network
This training provides essential information on how to hire and build a team with diverse skillsets and background for hiring managers and staff engaged in the hiring process.
What is Managing Bias in Hiring
A review of candidate's resume with no name to minimize bias in the recruitment process.
What is blind screening
Any prerequisite that has been demonstrated to be valid as a qualification for employment.
What is Bona fide occupational qualification
Embracing Diversity & Inclusion is one of the four (4) themes/drivers of this initiative and emphasizes the "diversity of customer needs".
What is People & Culture Strategy
TOnow encourages equality, increases leadership, enhances professional development and promotes achievements of this group in the TPS.
What is Toronto Network of Women
This training is City-specific, internally developed, and includes topics, such as workplace behaviour and culture and is part of foundational learning that helps you understand both your rights and responsibilities as members of the Toronto Public Service.
What is Human Rights 101
This stage of the recruitment process provides a candidate with a visual disability to complete payroll documents online.
What is Onboarding
An artificial barrier to the advancement of women and minorities to senior leadership positions.
What is Glass Ceiling
A program that originated at the University Toronto to make the university a more inclusive and welcoming environment for sexual and gender diversity.
What is Positive Space
This Forum enables senior leadership team to discuss diversity and inclusion-related objectives for director roles.
What is Executive Talent Forum
This eLearning module gives you a good start in understanding, valuing and embracing equity and inclusion.
What is Diversity & Inclusion Fundamentals
This language on the job posting demonstrates the City's commitment to create an accessible and inclusive organization in compliance with the Accessibility for Ontarians with Disabilities Act.
What is Accommodation Statement
This program encourages working conditions that are barrier-free, promotes acceptance of individual differences and increases potential employment opportunities for Indigenous and employment-seeking groups.
What is Employment Equity
This motto underlines the high value the City places on Diversity.
What is Diversity is our Strength
This forum promotes inclusion and accessibility in the workplace.
Employee Disability Network
This responds to the priorities identified by Toronto's diverse Black communities and to create a culture change at the City.
What is Confronting Anti-Black Racism Training
A questionnaire completed by candidates on a voluntary basis to self-identify one or more of the equity seeking groups that they belong to.
What is Count Yourself In Survey
Employment policies or practices that serve to perpetuate a differentiation in terms or conditions of employment of applicants or employees because of their status as members of a particular group.
What is Systemic Discrimination
The City received this award four years in a row.
What is Canada's Best Diversity Employer
The goal of this initiative is to have an engaged, diverse, high performing, adaptive and productive employees that meet the City's current and future business needs.
What is the City's Hiring Diversity Framework
This course has been designed in response to the Truth and Reconciliation Commission's (TRC) Call to Action #57.
What is Indigenous Cultural Competency Training: From Truth to Reconciliation
Candidates with a disability who need assistance in the application process can make their needs known to this specific e-mail this specific email.
What is accommodationforapplication@toronto.ca
An employer must demonstrate significant difficulty or expense when considering the nature and cost of the accommodation in light of an organization's overall financial resources and type of operations.
What is Undue Hardship
An active effort in workplace to improve the employment opportunities of members of minority groups and women.
What is Affirmative Action