LEEP Compliance Offerings

Employment equity reporting is not mandatory and so federally regulated employers may risk manage complying with this statutory requirement.

What EMC Offers:

EMC ensures the compliance of LEEP employers who have crossed the eighteen-month threshold and do not have in place an employment equity plan in compliance with the nine statutory requirements.

Our Consultants evaluate the compliance status of longstanding LEEP employers who have not been diligent in maintaining their employment equity plan.  We conduct a compliance audit, identify compliance gaps and develop, implement and provide the consulting support you require to maintain your employment equity plan.

Our Consultants determine how effectively your organization has made reasonable progress toward implementing your employment equity plan to reduce underrepresentation.

On or before June 1, in each year, every private sector employer must file its Employment Equity Annual Report. Employers report in a prescribed format on their employment equity performance and activities that took place in the preceding year.

What EMC Offers:

EMC Consultants partner with you to prepare and submit your Annual Report to CHRC.

The Canadian Human Rights Commission (CHRC), the regulatory agency, audits LEEP employers approximately every three to five years to assess their compliance with the obligations and statutory requirements of the Act. Some organizations may be selected randomly for a preliminary assessment audit. Others that have previously been audited may be chosen for the progress assessment phase of the audit based on criteria such as low representation, sector, size and geographic area or because of a special focus to increase representation of certain groups.

The audit may identify areas of non-compliance with the statutory requirements or may determine how effectively the employer has made reasonable progress toward implementing its employment equity plan to reduce underrepresentation.

Should your organization be found in non-compliance, the CHRC’s Compliance Review Officer will negotiate undertakings with you. Undertakings are the measures that your organization must undertake to correct deficiencies to ensure your compliance. Non-compliance is not a viable option.

What EMC Offers:

Our Consultants work with you to complete the undertakings and submit to CHRC documentation to verify that you have satisfactorily done so.

We ensure that LEEP employers comply with the new Federal Pay Equity Legislation and establish pay equity plans in 2021. EMC will review and update your plan every five years

What EMC Offers:

EMC develops your Pay Equity plan.