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Pay equity
Thirty years ago, the federal government passed a law making it illegal to discriminate against women in the workplace. Yet pay equity is still illusory for women, and recent studies show that the wage gap is actually increasing. More
Public Sector Equitable Compensation Act
- PSAC analysis of the Public Sector Equitable Compensation Act: The end of pay equity for women in the federal public service
- Urgent communication to the United Nations Commission on the Status of Women on the Public Sector Equitable Compensation Act
- Women's rights are not negotiable backgrounder [PDF, 4 pages, 172K]
Pay equity legislation and government reports
- 2004 Federal Government Pay Equity Task Force Report | francais
- Canadian Human Rights Act, Section 11, Equal Wages Guidelines
Publications
- Spotlight on Pay Equity (Union Update November 2009)
- Pay equity bulletins
Pay equity cases by employer
- Canada Post
- Treasury Board
- Government of Northwest Territories
- The Separate Employers case
(25 agencies and departments including: Auditor General, the Canadian Security Intelligence Service, the Communications Security Establishment, the Social Sciences and Humanities Research Council, the Office of the Superintendent of Financial Institutions, Statistical Survey Operations and the Canadian Institutes of Health Research (formerly the Medical Research Council). )
Date Modified : 2012/05/14
