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Checking Your Blind Spots: Identifying Gender Gaps in the Workplace
Identify gender gaps and turn insight into action. This toolkit helps trucking and logistics employers assess workplace gender equity through leadership discussion questions, a gender-focused SWOT analysis, employee survey questions, policy review guidance, and practical next steps to support women’s participation, safety, retention, and advancement.
Women at Work: Best Practices Guide
Attract, hire, retain, and advance more women in trucking and logistics. This best practices guide helps employers assess gender gaps, strengthen recruitment and hiring, improve workplace safety, support retention, create career pathways, build mentorship opportunities, and foster a more inclusive
Women with Drive: Maintaining our Momentum
Understand what is driving women’s participation in trucking and logistics. This research summary explores labour market challenges, women’s workforce trends, career-seeking women’s perceptions, employer actions, safety and work-life balance concerns, industry image, mentorship, training, and opportunities to recruit, retain, and advance more women.
Disabilities: Myths and Facts
Challenge common myths about hiring people with disabilities in trucking and logistics. This resource helps employers understand the facts about absenteeism, accommodation costs, supervision, retention, career development, and performance expectations, while encouraging inclusive hiring, meaningful employment opportunities, and stronger workforce participation for people with disabilities.
Talking about Disabilities
Promote respectful, inclusive language when talking about disabilities in trucking and logistics workplaces. This resource helps employers and employees understand person-first terminology, avoid harmful assumptions, use accessible language, refer to disability only when relevant, and create a more respectful workplace culture for people with disabilities.
Connector Tool
Connect with organizations and resources that support inclusive workplaces for people with disabilities. THRC’s Connector Tool helps trucking and logistics employers search by keyword, location, language, support type, and target audience to find information, training, funding, and job-seeker connection resources that can strengthen accessibility, inclusion, recruitment, and retention practices.
Supporting Disclosure & Common Types Of Industry Accommodations
Create a safer, more inclusive workplace for disability disclosure and accommodation. This resource helps trucking and logistics employers understand why employees may or may not disclose a disability, how to build trust and accessibility, and what practical accommodations may support employees across office, road, shop, and yard roles.
Hiring Persons With Disabilities Legal Considerations for Federally Regulated Employers and for Employers Regulated in Ontario
Understand key legal considerations for hiring persons with disabilities. This resource helps trucking and logistics employers review federal and Ontario legislation related to discrimination prevention, employment equity, accessibility, duty to accommodate, undue hardship, accessible hiring, and job protection.
Personal Leave Policy Sample
Clarify how personal leave requests are managed. This sample policy helps trucking and logistics employers outline legislated and extended personal leave, including eligibility, notice, documentation, approvals, pay and benefits considerations, vacation accrual, policy review, and employee acknowledgement.
Sample Individual Accommodation Plan (IAP) for Trucking and Logistics Industry Employers
Document workplace accommodations with clarity and consistency. This sample Individual Accommodation Plan helps trucking and logistics employers record employee accommodation needs, participants, supporting documentation, accommodation measures, accessible communication supports, emergency response needs, review timelines, and approvals.