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OPPORTUNITY ADVANCEMENT [12 records]

Record 1 2024-02-26

English

Subject field(s)
  • Social Organization
  • Economic and Industrial Sociology
CONT

The working class are those minimally educated people who engage in "manual labor" with little or no prestige. Unskilled workers in the class—dishwashers, cashiers, maids, and waitresses—usually are underpaid and have no opportunity for career advancement.

French

Domaine(s)
  • Organisation sociale
  • Sociologie économique et industrielle

Spanish

Campo(s) temático(s)
  • Organización social
  • Sociología industrial y económica
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Record 2 2016-02-29

English

Subject field(s)
  • Decision-Making Process
  • Group Dynamics
OBS

... the lack of opportunity for career advancement in certain decision-making groups of the Public Service...

French

Domaine(s)
  • Processus décisionnel
  • Dynamique des groupes

Spanish

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Record 3 2015-03-19

English

Subject field(s)
  • Recruiting of Personnel
  • Public Service
CONT

Where the selection of a person for appointment is made from within the Public Service without competition, every person who would have been eligible to compete if a closed competition had been held to fill the position, as determined pursuant to section 12, shall, for the purpose of section 21 of the Act, be deemed to be a person whose opportunity for advancement has been prejudicially affected.

French

Domaine(s)
  • Recrutement du personnel
  • Fonction publique
CONT

Lorsque le choix d'une personne, pour une nomination, est fait sans concours parmi les personnes qui sont membres de la Fonction publique, chaque personne qui aurait été admissible à concourir si un concours restreint avait été tenu pour combler le poste, comme le détermine l'article 12, est, aux fins de l'article 21 de la Loi, réputée être une personne dont les chances d'avancement ont été amoindries.

Spanish

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Record 4 2012-07-17

English

Subject field(s)
  • Private-Sector Bodies and Committees
  • Indigenous Peoples
OBS

The United Native Nations Society(UNNS) is a provincial non-profit organization incorporated in 1969 in the Province of BC. The objectives of the society are : To carry out programs consistent with those of a charitable organization for relief of poverty among the Aboriginal Peoples in BC; To organize and unite together Aboriginal Peoples in BC for purpose of the Society; To carry out programs for the advancement of the level of education, training and opportunity among the Aboriginal Peoples in BC. The Society shall be carried on with out objects of gain for its Members and Directors, and any profits or other accretions to the Society shall be used in promoting its objectives; To ensure there be a just resolution of Land Claims & Aboriginal Rights in BC; To act as a lobbying force for Aboriginal Peoples with all levels of Government.

OBS

Titles and abbreviation confirmed by the association.

French

Domaine(s)
  • Organismes et comités du secteur privé
  • Peuples Autochtones
OBS

Appellations et abréviation confirmées par l'organisme.

Spanish

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Record 5 2003-09-08

English

Subject field(s)
  • Labour and Employment
  • Cost of Living
  • Collective Agreements and Bargaining
CONT

A family wage job is defined as a job which offers wages greater than or equal to the state average weekly wage, benefits, a reasonable opportunity for continued skill development and career path advancement, and the possibility of long-term job security.

CONT

Oregon’s steady progress in the creation of family-wage jobs slipped in 2001. This measure tracks the extent to which individual jobs are capable of supporting a family at a level adequate to meet its needs at more than the subsistence level.

French

Domaine(s)
  • Travail et emploi
  • Coût de la vie
  • Conventions collectives et négociations

Spanish

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Record 6 1997-02-19

English

Subject field(s)
  • Labour and Employment
  • Working Practices and Conditions

French

Domaine(s)
  • Travail et emploi
  • Régimes et conditions de travail
OBS

avancement : Progression d'un employé au sein d'une organisation.

Spanish

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Record 7 1997-02-19

English

Subject field(s)
  • Training of Personnel
  • Labour and Employment

French

Domaine(s)
  • Perfectionnement et formation du personnel
  • Travail et emploi
OBS

promotion : Avancement d'un employé à un poste supérieur à celui qu'il occupait précédemment.

Spanish

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Record 8 1993-01-05

English

Subject field(s)
  • Organizations, Administrative Units and Committees
OBS

Disabled consumers, parents of the disabled, rehabilitation professionals, and volunteers. To support, encourage, and promote self-determination, equal opportunity, consumerism, and normalization in recreation and leisure for disabled individuals; to launch the formation and advancement of national policy and philosophy for special recreation; to provide national information services on federal, state, and local laws, regulations, and public programs for special recreation.

French

Domaine(s)
  • Organismes, unités administratives et comités

Spanish

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Record 9 1989-02-08

English

Subject field(s)
  • Personnel and Job Evaluation
OBS

The point, or stage, of a career at which the individual has no opportunity for further promotion or advancement.

French

Domaine(s)
  • Évaluation du personnel et des emplois

Spanish

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Record 10 1988-02-25

English

Subject field(s)
  • Organizations, Administrative Units and Committees

French

Domaine(s)
  • Organismes, unités administratives et comités
OBS

Renseignement obtenu de l'organisme.

Spanish

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Record 11 1981-02-09

English

Subject field(s)
  • Personnel Management (General)

French

Domaine(s)
  • Gestion du personnel (Généralités)
OBS

Lexique de la dotation en personnel

Spanish

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Record 12 1976-06-19

English

Subject field(s)
  • Sociology

French

Domaine(s)
  • Sociologie
OBS

"..conditions professionnelles proprement dites (normes, risques de sanction, salaire, horizon de carrière). lexique des sciences sociales, p. 71

Spanish

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