Perhaps I could comment on pay equity and collective bargaining and the maintenance.
Pay equity is a non-negotiable human right, whether in achieving or maintaining pay equity. It's a fundamental human right both domestically and internationally. Making pay equity subject to collective bargaining is making it conditional upon bargaining power, even in the maintenance stage. To allow pay equity to be subject to collective bargaining, which involves compromises and concessions, really undermines the quasi-constitutional nature and status. It does carry serious consequences for women and all those who work in female-dominated jobs.
I do want to draw a distinction between equitable compensation and pay equity. Generally, fair or equitable compensation is negotiated in conjunction with other bargaining terms and conditions of employment. It's a tenet of collective bargaining for regular pay increases. It's determined based on comparators that assume all factors are equal. Pay equity speaks to systemic undervaluation of work traditionally done by women. It is a fundamental human right that can't be bargained away.
In that sense, there is a distinction between equitable compensation and pay equity and incorporating pay equity into collective bargaining.