Employment Equity Designations

"Designated Groups" means Women, Aboriginal peoples, Persons with a Disability, and Members of Visible Minorities.

Designated Group Definitions (from the Employment Equity Act – S3 Definitions)

Aboriginal peoples mean persons who are Indian, Inuit, or Métis peoples of Canada.

• Registered Indian is a person recoded as an (North American) Indian on the Indian Register. Usually a member of a First Nation Band. It includes persons who recovered their status under Bill C-31.
• Treaty Indian is a member of a First Nation Band which was a signatory to a Treaty with the Government of Canada.
• Non-Treaty Indian is a person who is registered as an Indian on the General List, or as a member of a First Nation that is not signatory to a Treaty.
• Status Indian is a person of Indian or Aboriginal ancestry who is registered as an Indian for the purposes of the Indian Act.
• Non-Status Indian is a person of Indian ancestry who is not registered as an Indian.
• Métis is a person of mixed Aboriginal and European ancestry who are descendants of the early settlers of Canada.
• Inuit is a person of Aboriginal descent in northern Canada who generally reside in the Yukon, Northwest Territories, Nunavut, northern Quebec and Labrador.

Persons with a disability have a long-term or recurring physical, mental, sensory, psychiatric or learning impairment and:

1. consider themselves to be disadvantaged in employment by reason of that impairment,
   or
2. believe that an employer or potential employer is likely to consider them to be disadvantaged in employment by reason of that impairment,

and includes persons whose functional limitations owing to their impairment have been accommodated in their current job or workplace.

Members of a visible minority group means persons, other than Aboriginal peoples, who are non-Caucasian in race, or non-white in colour.