1659 search results
Recommendation 11:
The Ministry of Labour and the Public Service Agency should promote and implement anti-Black racism training for human resource managers and recruiters, both in the public and private sectors. This is particularly critical considering concerns of lack of racial diversity on hiring committees. It is recommended that the PSA introduce specific anti-black racism modules or courses alongside its current diversity and inclusion training.
-
Category and theme:
Groups affected:
Location of recommendation:
Recommendation 14:
The Ministry of Labour and the BC Public Service Agency should embrace and champion equitable hiring practices such as blind hiring and interviewing to further increase fairness in recruitment. This is particularly critical for the PSA whose hiring practices have been strongly criticized by respondents and participants.
-
Category and theme:
Audience:
Groups affected:
Location of recommendation:
Recommendation 30:
The Ministry of Justice in collaboration with the Ministry of Advanced Education should make funding available for law practitioners of African descent to provide mentoring and coaching services to youth and newcomers of African descent as it will ensure a greater holistic orientation on societal expectations.
-
Category and theme:
Groups affected:
Location of recommendation:
Recommendation 20:
The Ministry of Justice and/or Court Services Branch must update any Ministry of Justice databases (e.g. JUSTIN) and related practices, policies, and technology platforms, to ensure that the imposition of bail and sentencing conditions can be tracked in correlation with housing status and race, and that breaches of bail or sentencing can be properly recorded and searched based on the type of condition breached.
-
Category and theme:
Groups affected:
Location of recommendation:
Recommendation 33:
The Ministry of Jobs, Economic Recovery and Innovation should work with People of African Descent business organizations to establish a permanent mechanism to understand the peculiar profiles, models, challenges, concerns, and opportunities of People of African Descent-led businesses. Using the Knowledge Hub component of the national Black Entrepreneurship Program, this mechanism would foster and enhance understanding of People of African Descent businesses contributions to the advancement of the Province.
-
Category and theme:
Audience:
Groups affected:
Location of recommendation:
Recommendation 38:
The Ministry of Jobs, Economic Recovery and Innovation should invest in advisory, consulting, and mentoring services for People of African Descent businesses accessing loan programs. This should come through both a centralized funding stream through People of African Descent business organizations and a separate stream directly accessible by People of African Descent business owners.
-
Category and theme:
Audience:
Groups affected:
Location of recommendation:
Recommendation 34:
The Ministry of Jobs, Economic Recovery and Innovation should ensure that the “Race-based” data legislation provides sufficient levers for business associations and chambers of commerce to collect and use data to evaluate equity of awarding decisions of existing funding schemes along the lines of gender, race, and economic background.
-
Category and theme:
Audience:
Groups affected:
Location of recommendation:
Recommendation 37:
The Ministry of Jobs, Economic Recovery and Innovation must commit to creating dedicated and adequate funding pathways, including grants and concessionary loans for business owners of African descent, that are less complex to access and have clearer criteria than the federal-level Black Entrepreneurship Loan Fund under the Black Entrepreneurship Program. Considering historical and structural risks and biases People of African Descent businesses have to contend with, It is also critical for these programs to reduce or attenuate emphasis on collaterals by Banks.
-
Category and theme:
Audience:
Groups affected:
Location of recommendation:
Recommendation 36:
The Ministry of Jobs, Economic Recovery and Innovation in collaboration with the Ministry of Labour should unequivocally support entrepreneurs of African descent through dedicated avenues for skills, products and business promotions. Amongst key measures recommended, the Government should commit to sourcing a reasonable proportion of governmental purchases and contracts from PAD businesses.
-
Category and theme:
Audience:
Groups affected:
Location of recommendation:
Recommendation 30:
The Ministry of Housing and Municipal Affairs must immediately improve the number and accessibility of shelter options to ensure that everyone in BC always has access to a physical location where they can sleep, store belongings, and attend to personal care and hygiene in safety and without threat of displacement or sanctions. To do so they must:
- work in partnership with BC Housing to reinstate nightly turn-away counts at shelters and use data to ensure that there are adequate shelter beds to address the level of need in each municipality;
- with the exception of temporary Extreme Weather Response shelters, recognize that overnight-only shelters are untenable for residents and provide funding to expand shelter hours; and
- provide shelter residents an accessible and independent complaint process.
-
Category and theme:
Audience:
Groups affected:
Location of recommendation: