Task force recommends ‘historic’ changes to Employment Equity Act as Black, 2SLGBTQI+ people to be considered as new designated groups

Leading lawyer for a multi-billion class action lawsuit against the federal government Courtney Betty says 'the implications for the Black community is really the point of transformation that the community needs right now.'

Nicholas Marcus Thompson, left, one of the representative class members in the class-action lawsuit against the federal government; Kofi Achampong, principal lawyer and government relations adviser with Achampong Law; and Courtney Betty, the lawyer leading the class action. Photographs courtesy of Twitter, LinkedIn, and Courtney Betty

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BY MIKE LAPOINTE

December 20, 2023

In what the leading lawyer for a multi-billion-dollar class action suit against the federal government calls potentially “the most significant change for Black workers in Canada, ever,” the federal government has announced that a task force has recommended Black people b...

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