This chapter contains these topics:
Section 9.1, "Working with Canadian Federal Employment Equity,"
Section 9.2, "Creating the Canadian Employment Equity Workfile,"
Section 9.3, "Downloading the Workfile to Your Personal Computer."
To be eligible for a government contract of 200,000.00 (Canadian) or more, a Canadian company with 100 or more employees must certify to the Canadian government that it will abide by Canadian Employment Equity legislation. The Canadian government designed this legislation to ensure that federal contractors do not discriminate against minorities or females. Canadian Employment Equity rules are similar to the Equal Employment Opportunity rules of the United States government.
To help federal contractors maintain the information that they need to comply with employment equity rules, the Canadian government provides the Federal Contractors Program Computerized Software (FCPCS). This software shows the specific information that you must track for each of your employees.
You can use the FCPCS to analyze your employee information and to print employment equity reports. This software runs on a personal computer.
To save time and eliminate redundant data entry, you can download information from your Human Resources system into the FCPCS on your personal computer.
From Employee Information (G08E1), choose International Data
From International information/Procedures (G08E13), choose Create FCPCS Workfile
Before you can develop an employment equity plan for your organization, you must compile relevant information about the employees in your organization.
This batch program compiles the following information for each of your employees:
Employee number
Name
Gender
Employment status
Salary
Province of work
Division
Hire date
Termination date
Promotion Dates 1-4
Ethnic classification
Disability status
National Occupation Code (NOC)
Census Metropolitan Area (CMA) work code
Sector Industrial Code (SIC)
| Topic | Description |
|---|---|
| Missing information | If any of the information that is required by the Federal Contractors Program is missing from your employee records, the system does not generate the workfile for any employees. Instead, the system prints an error report that lists the employees who have missing information and the type of information that is missing for each of those employees. |
From Employee Information (G08E1), choose International Data
From International information/Procedures (G08E13), choose Download FCPCS Workfile
After you create the Canadian Employment Equity workfile, you can download a copy of the workfile to your personal computer. The information is then available to help you maintain your Canadian Employment Equity compliance.
Use the processing options to specify the directory path and filename on your personal computer into which you want to download the information. To access the processing options before running the program, enter the menu selection number and choose the DW Processing Options function to access the processing options.
Verify that the directory path and filename that you specified in the processing options exist on your personal computer. This download program cannot inform you if errors occur during the actual copying of information to your personal computer.