City of Regina identifies employment of Aboriginal people as priority

The City of Regina has set as a priority the development of a First Nation and Métis recruitment and retention strategy. According to the latest statistics, of 1,164 city employees—not including seasonal—129, or 7.8 per cent, are self-declared as Aboriginal, falling below the city’s 15.2-per-cent target set by the Saskatchewan Human Rights Commission. Most Aboriginal employees work as labourers, bus operators or in clerical positions for the city; none are employed at the executive or management levels. “It’s been a long-standing objective of the city to have more First Nation and Métis people (employed) with the City of Regina,” Mayor Michael Fougere told the Leader-Post. “It’s a work in progress. We can always do better, and we are doing better, but we have a ways to go.”