Workplace accommodation and audit-based evaluation process for compliance with the Employment Equity Act

Inclusionary Practices That Exclude-an Institutional Ethnography

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ID2609532
AuthorsJean Louis Deveau (Agriculture and Agri-Food Canada, corresponding author)
Year2011
Volume36
Issue3
Pages151-172
Publication date2011-07-30
Peer ReviewedYes
Open AccessYes
TypeARTICLE
VenueThe Canadian Journal of Sociology (JOURNAL)
Journal identifiersISSN: 0318-6431 • E-ISSN: 1710-1123
PublisherUniversity of Alberta Libraries (PUBLISHER)
DOI10.29173/cjs10479
OpenAlexW1564055503
LanguageEN
Citations received5
References cited7

Matt kept the operable window in his office open all the time because he needed unlimited access to fresh air. This was terminated after a Heating, Ventilation, and Air Conditioning system was installed in his Government of Canada office building. After Matt's access to fresh air became mechanically controlled through extra-locally developed air quality standards, the workplace became a barrier for him. Matt was deemed to suffer from a disability known as environmental sensitivity because he became ill every time he spent more than 45 minutes inside his office building. Yet, according to a textually-mediated assessment of Matt's workplace performed by a Compliance Review Officer from the Canadian Human Rights Commission, his workplace was barrier-free. Using Dorothy E. Smith's institutional ethnography, this paper explicates how the social organization of workplace accommodation and compliance-processes that were developed to promote inclusion-are exclusionary

Accommodation · Audit · Business · Commission · Officer · Political science · Sociology · Law · Occupational Health and Safety Research · Psychology · Public Administration · Accounting

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