Public service needs better data to measure diversity, says task force

A joint union-management task force spent the last year consulting public servants on diversity and inclusion, coming up with 44 recommendations in December that Treasury Board is reviewing for implementation.

Waheed Khan, a member of the Professional Institute of the Public Service and co-chair of a Joint Union-Management Task Force committee, said the unions and management agreed on the report's 44 recommendations. It is the first review of its kind, he added. The Hill Times photograph by Andrew Meade

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BY EMILY HAWS

January 24, 2018

Planning the future of diversity in the public service is not possible with out-of-date data, leaving certain groups unintentionally sidelined, a joint task force studying equity initiatives found, after a months-long examination of inclusion and diversity in the public service. In its final report...

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