INVITATION

Sikkuy: The Association for the Advancement of Civic Equality is pleased to invite you to attend a symposium on the topic:  Employment Equity – Insights and Implementation – Learning from the Canadian Experience – on

March 23, 2010 from 10:30 – 14:00 at the Colony Hotel, 28 Ben-Gurion Blvd., Haifa

Program:

10:30 – Registration and refreshments

11:00 –  Greetings

                 Ms. Patsy Landa, Sikkuy board member

                 Mr. Jon Allen – Canadian Ambassador to Israel

11:20 –  Plenary and keynote address

                Chair – Dr. Ayman Agbaria – Haifa University, Beit-Berl College and Sikkuy board member.

Guest speaker – Ms. Gay Stinson – Former Senior Director, Labour Standards          and Workplace Equity in the Labour Program within Human Resources and   Social Development Canada (HRSDC).  Ms. Stinson will speak on the topic:  Principles, Insights and Implementation of Equal Employment Opportunity in Canada.

Respondent I– Ms. Tziona King-Yair, Adv. – Equal Employment Opportunity Commissioner, Israel.

Respondent II- Dr. Yosef Jabareen - Senior lecturer at the Faculty of Architecture and Town Planning, Technion – Israel Institute of Technology.

Discussion

13:10 – Light refreshments

13:30 – Discussion and summary

14:00 - Conclusion

Please confirm your participation via e-mail to Yaser Awad, director of Sikkuy's Employment Equity and Fair Representation Project – awad_y@netvision.net.il or haifa@sikkuy.org.il

The symposium will be conducted in English without translation.

This symposium was made possible by the kind assistance of the Canadian Embassy in Israel.