Workforce Diversity Improving: City Implementing Action Plan

The City is encouraged by the latest figures contained in the Diversity and Inclusion Annual Report for 2016. The report will be presented as information to the meeting of the Standing Policy Committee on Environment, Utilities & Corporate Services, on March 13, 2017.

“Our action planning for diversity and inclusion has become much more systematic,” says Marno McInnes, Director of Human Resources. “There is more work to do, but we’re hopeful a more focused strategy in 2017 will produce even better results.”

In particular McInnes highlights two key elements of the 2017 action plan:

• Using data and increased analysis to make more improvements.
• Using a model that finds solutions through three separate perspectives; people, systems and environmental.

“We have made some positive gains in relation to our Visible Minority workforce and we see improvements in the number of permanent position in relation to our Aboriginal workforce,” McInnes says. “Our priority as we move forward is to ensure that our current successes continue and we focus on those areas that need improvement.” 

The City has a long-standing commitment to diversity and inclusion including being an equity partner with the Saskatchewan Human Rights Commission.  As an equity partner, the City commits to the basic principles and objectives which outline a larger responsibility to foster an inclusive society.