Sentences with phrase «pay equity legislation»

The 2018 budget puts a large emphasis on gender equality, including through pay equity legislation for federally regulated sectors.

Pay equity legislation provide a mandatory approach to eliminating systematic discrimination in wages in female - dominated occupations compared to male - dominated occupations.

The government has announced their intention to move forward with a proactive pay equity legislation in federally regulated sectors to ensure federally regulated employees «receive equal pay for work of equal value.»

Patrick Colford concludes by saying: «The New Brunswick Federation of Labour will be looking for political party's platforms to include commitments for improving labour laws so that all workers are entitled to paid sick leave, investing in public services to protect society's most vulnerable citizens and adopting pay equity legislation that covers the private sector.»

The Liberal Party announced they would introduce pay equity legislation, increase funding to Family and Community Support Services and reinstate the Charitable Donation Tax Credit, which was decreased in the recent budget.

In a release on Wednesday, the Tkaczyk campaign points to Amedore's votes in the state Assembly dating back to 2008 in which he cast «no» votes on pay equity legislation.

Some provinces (Manitoba, Ontario, New Brunswick, Quebec, Prince Edward Island and Nova Scotia) have specific pay equity legislation, while other provinces (Saskatchewan, Newfoundland and British Columbia) have some policies for negotiating pay equity for public sector employees.

LAO staff lawyer Linh Le, who is one of the three complainants, says pay equity legislations are «meaningless» if they're not enforceable.

Country - wide pay equity legislation and adequate childcare are needed, alongside new and aggressive strategies involving all levels of government to address structural inequalities and close the wage gap.

Today's announcement comes on the heels of last week's budget plan in which the federal government outlined proposed proactive pay equity legislation that would apply to federally regulated employers — see here for our article on the proposed federal legislation.

What it doesn't say is that higher minimum wages, better employment standards enforcement, proactive pay equity legislation, and affordable childcare would all go a long way to shrinking that gap for women in Canada.

(Never mind that Republicans had previously opposed some of the measures beyond the abortion provision, including the pay equity legislation).

The Republican - led state Senate had previously approved the pay equity legislation.