Ontario’s Gender Wage Gap Infographic
In an effort to briefly explain the Ontario Wage Gap Program, we have created an infographic to provide statistics and information to employees and employers alike.
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Ontario’s Equal Pay Coalition Open Letter to Dalton McGuinty
Chair of Ontario’s Equal Pay Coalition Mary Cornish reading an Open Letter to Premier Dalton McGuinty on the 60th Anniversary of Universal Declaration of Human Rights (December 10, 2008).
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A Pay Equity Case Study: The Canadian Broadcasting Corporation
A Case of Pay Equity:
The Canadian Broadcasting Corporation
In another example of Pay Equity cases that continue, the lines of job comparison are blurred. On 30 April 1999, the CUPE union representing CBC production assistants lodged a complaint to the Canadian Human Rights Commission. This complaint dealt with the inequity of pay between mainly female production assistants,  as compared with camera technicians, comprised more of males. Both of these jobs are from the same institution: CBC.
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Providing Pay Equity Proof
Providing Pay Equity Proof
Since 1988, the Pay Equity Commission has been ensuring that companies provide equal pay, for work of equal value. This work is done through investigators that call on companies to provide proof of their programs that support this legislative Act, and its requirements of companies in Ontario. If you are an employer in Ontario with more than 10 employees, you are required to implement a Pay Equity plan to ensure your compliance with the Pay Equity Act.
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A Guide to Ontario’s Pay Equity Act
Guide to Ontarioâs Pay Equity Act
If you are a business in Ontario, there are regulations governing the fair and equitable payment of both genders within your business concerning the same performed activities. The average person and most small businesses in Ontario are used to simply taking this very important act for granted, either that it does exist or that it does not. It is still in effect and can negatively impact your business as outlined below.
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Michael Ignatieff On Pay Equity
Liberal Leader Michael Ignatieff re-introduced his private members bill that would, if passed, ensure the human right of pay equity could not be bargained away. Watch this video for more details.
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Is The Government Misleading on Pay Equity?
Is The Government Misleading on Pay Equity? Â Some interesting insights from Parliament on the current PC goverment’s misalignment with their proposed pay equity legislation.
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Pay Equity â Know Your Organizationâs Compliance Status and Risk
Every organization should incorporate risk management into all aspects of human resources planning by identifying the sources and levels of risk and coordinating the required resources to make an effort towards minimization. […]
Complying With Ontario’s Pay Equity Legislation
This quick video with Carolyn Kay, a partner at Toronto law firm Hicks Morley, talks about the pay equity issues employers face, the hidden costs of non-compliance and how to deal with a request from Ontario’s Pay Equity Commission.
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