Pay equity? Yes. Absolutely a feminist issue.

The Pay Equity Act was adopted in 1996.

Pay equity has been fully implemented as per the original agreement.

According to a 2002 survey carried out on behalf of the Pay Equity Commission, 39 percent of 3,899 businesses employing between 10 and 49 people have completed their pay equity procedure.

The average salary adjustment, as the result of pay equity procedures, was 8.1 percent.

In 2004, article 11 of the Pay Equity Act was amended to enable an employer and several certified associations to develop an agreement to establish a distinct pay equity program for the employees represented by these certified associations.

This chapter of exceptions allowed employers to be exempt from pay equity procedures if the company could claim that it had already completed a pay equity or salary relativity program before the said Act came into effect in November of 1996.

The Government of Saskatchewan chose to implement pay equity in 1997 through a policy framework model.

On January 9, 2004, the Superieur Court declared Chapter IX of the Pay Equity Act unconstitutional.

The PEI Pay Equity Act was proclaimed in 1988 and was limited to public sector employers.

Particularly, the enterprise s own equity instruments shall not include the contracts which are the basis for the enterprise to charge or pay the equity instruments of its own.

Information on the Pay Equity Commission can be found on its Web site www.gov.on.ca lab pec index_pec.html.

The purpose of the Regulation respecting pay equity in enterprises where there are no predominantly male job classes is to provide two job classes that are typically male dominated to companies where no such classes exist, so they can complete their pay equity exercise.

The Court did not, however, make any pronouncement on the pay equity rights of female health care employees since they had been acquired by contract, rather the question was whether the government was discriminating against women by targeting pay equity compensation in its budget cuts.

The task force reviewed models of pay equity legislation and accepted submissions from individuals, employers and trade unions.

Since the implementation of the Pay Equity Act, progress has been made in closing the gap in salaries.

As a result, affected companies will have to conform to all the regulations of the Pay Equity Act.

There has been little or no impact of existing pay equity legislation in New Brunswick in recent years.

The Court rules that Chapter IX maintained, for a number of employed women, a situation of systemic pay discrimination, precisely what the Pay Equity Act aimed to redress.

In February 2002, an independent task force on pay equity created a report entitled Working Through the Wage Gap.

The wage gap within organizations that have implemented pay equity under the policy framework has been reduced for those organizations.

Over all, 64 percent of Québec businesses of all sizes covered by the Pay Equity Act have completed their work.

Since 1997, the purpose of the Pay Equity Act is to redress differences in compensation due to systemic gender discrimination.

Consequently, the employer would not have to undertake a new pay equity process under the general provisions of the Act.

All public sector employers are required to achieve and maintain pay equity, as are all private sector employers with 10 or more employees.

The Pay Equity Act originally provided for a proxy comparison method for public sector jobs, which was subsequently struck from the Act in 1996.

The Public Sector Restraint Act, introduced in 1991 to avert a financial disaster, had the effect of postponing the commencement of the pay equity increase and eliminated the obligation to pay the 1988 to 1991 arrears.

According to a survey conducted in the autumn of 2003, 62 percent of businesses employing between 10 and 49 people had completed their pay equity efforts.

At issue before the Supreme Court of Canada was whether the Newfoundland government, by postponing pay equity payments, was violating equality rights of section 15 of the Charter.

In Syndicat de la fonction publique du Québec v. Québec (Attorney General), the Superior Court of Québec had to deal with the issue pay equity between men and women.

Newfoundland (Treasury Board) v. N.A.P.E In 1988, the government of Newfoundland and Labrador signed a Pay Equity Agreement recognising that it had underpaid female employees in the health care sector.

The implementation dates for the Pay Equity Agreements were also agreed through negotiation, but subsequently, in 1991, legislation was enacted to delay the start of the implementation from 1988 to 1991.

PEI has the lowest male female wage gap in Canada for several reasons, one of which is the number of workers who are covered by federal or provincial public sector pay equity initiatives.

Under Chapter IX of the Act, employers can ask the Commission de l'équité salariale to approve, under certain conditions, a pay equity or salary relativity plan completed before the adoption of the Act.

Banks serve a special function in the economy that does warrant a special role for the government not in setting pay, but in imposing effective capital requirements. Higher and pro cyclical equity capital requirements on banks, combined with a requirement to raise contingent long term debt debt that converts into equity in a crisis is a better way forward.

Financial firms in the United States pay about 34 of their profits in taxes, and, while they can deduct interest payments to creditors from taxable income, equity is not taxed as favorably. Most countries have similar tax preferences for debt over equity, thereby encouraging financial and other corporations to use more debt, as financial analysts have long known.

A Parliamentary Standing Committee on the Status of Women was established in 2004. As of June 2005, the Committee has released reports on funding of women's equality seeking organizations, gender based analysis and pay equity.

Promoting greater gender equity.

Equity structures have also benefited from logistical support (computers, office facilities) and from technical assistance (National Equity Committee).

2 Long term Equity Investments

Employment equity and workplace diversity

Employment equity and workplace diversity

The Government and unions (Newfoundland and Labrador Association of Public and Private Employees, Canadian Union of Public Employees, Newfoundland and Labrador Nurses Union, International Brotherhood of Electrical Workers, Association of Allied Health Care Professionals) negotiated a pay equity agreement in 1988.

Educators like to talk about equity.

Subprogramme 4 Social development and equity