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| Backgrounder Application of the Canadian Human Rights Act
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| In 2002, the Canadian Human Rights Commission embarked on a process of change. The change agenda focuses on three areas: - Expanding the use of alternate dispute resolution to resolve complaints.ADR has an enormous potential to resolve many complaints of discrimination.
- Addressing the current caseload and making the complaints handling process more efficient, timely and effective.
- Developing tools to identify and focus on those human rights issues that raise systemic or serious human rights issues and have the greatest human rights impact. Tools that are non-complaint based, such as public reports and policy inquiries will play a bigger role in addressing systemic issues.
These changes will bring the Commission closer to the remedial and preventive approaches to human rights that Parliament originally envisaged when the Canadian Human Rights Act was adopted 25 years ago. In addition to its change agenda efforts, in 2002, the Commission also: - rendered decision in 729 cases of human rights complaints
- issued a report on the Treatment of the Innu of Labrador by the Government of Canada
- revised its policy on Alcohol and Drug Testing in the workplace
- participated in the review of the Employment Equity Act
- participated in several conferences on racism in the new security environment
- delivered hundreds of training and information sessions to federally regulated employers and service providers, many of them on the duty to accommodate.
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