As outlined in McGill's Employment Equity Policy, our commitments include a duty to:
- continue to build a diverse workforce that is representative of the pool of potential candidates with appropriate qualifications;
- ensure that all employment-related decisions are fair and based on job performance criteria such as skills, knowledge, and abilities relevant to specific positions and not on factors unrelated to a person’s ability to do the job;
- ensure that University regulations, policies and practices do not have an adverse impact, direct or indirect, on the employment and advancement of members of designated groups;
- seek to increase the range of applicants for all academic, administrative and support staff positions to reflect the diversity of the pool of potential candidates with appropriate qualifications from designated groups found within the labour market;
- ensure that, where candidates do not differ in merit, employment decisions are guided by the University’s policy on employment equity;
- identify those sectors of the University workforce wherein members of the designated groups are under-represented and to develop measures to address such under-representation;