Section 15 — Employment Equity Act: Consultation with employee representatives

Every employer shall consult with its employees’ representatives by inviting the representatives to provide their views concerning the assistance that the representatives could provide to the employer to facilitate the implementation of employment equity in its workplace and the communication to its employees of matters relating to employment equity; and the preparation, implementation and revision of the employer’s employment equity plan. Where employees are represented by a bargaining agent, the bargaining agent shall participate in a consultation under subsection (1). Every employer and its employees’ representatives shall collaborate in the preparation, implementation and revision of the employer’s employment equity plan. Consultation under subsection (1) and collaboration under subsection (3) are not forms of co-management.