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Recommendation 29:
Ensure employers, management and employees understand their obligations under the Canadian Human Rights Act to Muslim employees in the workplace and to create a fair and healthy workplace free from discrimination, harassment, prejudice and bias. Provide resources to ensure that racialized and/or Muslim employees know their rights in the workplace.
Islamophobia at Work: Challenges and Opportunities
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Canadian Labour Congress
Canadian Labour Congress
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Recommendation 5:
Engage and educate members about the dangers represented by the Islamophobic far-right political movements.
Islamophobia at Work: Challenges and Opportunities
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Canadian Labour Congress
Canadian Labour Congress
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Recommendation 30:
Develop organizational and workplace policies and practices that are fair, equitable and free from discrimination, harassment or retaliation against anyone, including racialized and/or Muslim employees who work for the organization or those who receive services from it.
Islamophobia at Work: Challenges and Opportunities
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Canadian Labour Congress
Canadian Labour Congress
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Recommendation 22:
Develop equitable and inclusive hiring policy and standards for BC that rectifies indigenous exclusion from the economy.
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Recommendation 36:
Create joint workplace committees with leadership, management and employees through bargaining agents or Muslim and/or racialized employee representatives to develop, monitor, and evaluate anti-Muslim and anti-racism initiatives.
Islamophobia at Work: Challenges and Opportunities
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Canadian Labour Congress
Canadian Labour Congress
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2019
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Recommendation 31:
Create and ensure a positive and constructive organizational and workplace culture that is safe and respectful of multiple diversities of their employees, including Muslim employees.
Islamophobia at Work: Challenges and Opportunities
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Canadian Labour Congress
Canadian Labour Congress
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2019
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Recommendation 27:
Create a diversity of low-barrier, peer-based jobs in the DTES with priority hiring and support for Indigenous women of the community. Ensure that peer workers are paid a living wage, have full benefits, and the right to unionization. Recognize the contribution of volunteers and create appropriate and accredited volunteer programs to transfer skills and enable access to employment.
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Recommendation 7:
Continue to work alongside the peace movement and faith groups to demand diplomatic and peaceful resolution of international conflicts, while opposing Western military intervention against Muslim nations justified by the “global war on terror.”
Islamophobia at Work: Challenges and Opportunities
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Canadian Labour Congress
Canadian Labour Congress
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Recommendation 16:
Co-host and co-sponsor activities at community events (fairs, festivals, tournaments, etc.) where union members, community members and Muslims in Canada can interact: tobogganing races, hot chocolate or fruit cocktail socials, bake sales, BBQs, picnics, potluck suppers, etc.
Islamophobia at Work: Challenges and Opportunities
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Canadian Labour Congress
Canadian Labour Congress
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2019
2019
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Recommendation 1:
Champion fairness, equity and social justice for Muslims in Canada. Speak out, immediately, against any backlash or incidents of discrimination against Muslims in your community. Organize with allies and spokespeople from the Muslim community so you can find ways to speak out together.
Islamophobia at Work: Challenges and Opportunities
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Canadian Labour Congress
Canadian Labour Congress
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2019
2019
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