The Québec Charter reaffirms the principle of equal pay for equivalent work. Moreover, it also empowers the Québec Human Rights and Youth Rights Commission, after an investigation reveals the existence of a discriminatory practice in employment, especially with regards to women, members of cultural communities, the handicapped and native people, to propose the implementation of an affirmative action program to attain greater representation of target group members within such time as it may fix. If its proposal is not followed, the Québec Human Rights and Youth Rights Commission may apply to the court and obtain an order to devise and implement an affirmative action program.
Note also that Emploi-Québec (of the Ministry of Employment and Social Solidarity) grants subsidies to employers to adapt job openings to the capacities of handicapped persons or to otherwise promote their employment.
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