Arbitrator orders Canada, Nunavut and NTI back to the table to work out employment levels – APTN News

May 10, 2023

A federal arbitrator is giving Canada, Nunavut and Nunavut Tunngavik Inc., two months to work out a deal over government employment levels for Inuit in the territory.

While Inuit represent 85 per cent of Nunavummiut, the president of NTI said it’s unacceptable that Inuit employment in the public sector remains only at 50 per cent broadly, with the percentage decreasing at higher levels of government.

“There was a great expectation that Inuit would be employed at a representative level at all levels of government,” said Aluki Kotierk.

In 2006, NTI launched a lawsuit against Canada and Nunavut over Article 23 of the Nunavut Land Claims Agreement which covers public sector employment and contracting in the territory and was written to encourage governments to hire Inuit for work.

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