Meeting_Body
EXECUTIVE MANAGEMENT
NOVEMBER 18, 2021
Subject
SUBJECT: NEW FOSTERING AN INCLUSIVE CULTURE POLICY
Action
ACTION: RECEIVE AND FILE
Heading
RECOMMENDATION
Title
RECEIVE AND FILE status report on the new Fostering an Inclusive Culture Policy (Attachment A).
Issue
ISSUE
Metro seeks to recognize, observe, and celebrate holidays, diversity heritage months, cultural days, awareness days, and religious observances that reflect the diversity of its employees and customers and help foster an environment of inclusion and belonging. The CEO has developed a new administrative policy - Fostering an Inclusive Culture -to guide Metro staff in commemorating cultural heritage months and scheduling major events and public meetings around religious and cultural holidays.
Background
BACKGROUND
Metro is committed to fostering an environment that values diversity, equity, and inclusion, and reflects the community it serves. Diversity is all the ways in which people differ and encompasses all the different characteristics that make one individual or group different from another. It recognizes everyone and every group as part of the diversity that should be valued. This includes race, ethnicity, gender, age, national origin, religion, ability, sexual orientation, socioeconomic status, education, marital status, language, veteran status, and physical appearance. It also recognizes the varying ideas, perspectives and values regarding them.
Metro has policies that establish guidelines for paid holidays and religious accommodations. However, there are holidays, cultural days, cultural heritage months, awareness days, and religious observances that are significant to our diverse employees and customers, and for which Metro seeks to observe and celebrate in other ways. To ensure this is applied in a consistent, equitable, and inclusive manner, the CEO has directed developed the Fostering an Inclusive Culture Policy ("Policy").
Metro staff, with consider...
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