Persons with Disabilities

The Employment Equity Act defines persons with disabilities as people with a long-term or recurring physical, mental, sensory, psychiatric or learning impairment. Persons with disabilities also:

  • consider themselves to be disadvantaged in the workplace because of that impairment; and/or
  • believe that an employer or potential employer is likely to consider them to be disadvantaged in the workplace because of that impairment.

In addition, persons with disabilities include individuals with functional limitations due to their impairment that have been accommodated in their current job or workplace.

The Act includes persons with disabilities as a designated group because they have faced—and continue to face—barriers to employment.

The following links provide recent statistics on persons with disabilities, highlights from the Employment Equity Act Annual Report and additional resources related to the employment of persons with disabilities.

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Date Modified:
2012-02-15