Yes, it is very litigious. The reason is very simple. Once a complaint is made, a factual basis has to be formed. Job assessments have to be done as soon as the complaint is filed whereas, in a proactive plan like the one put forward by the Public Sector Equitable Compensation Act, the obligation to do job assessments and to maintain the factual basis is ongoing. Every time wages are reviewed, we use the update from this factual basis and we do another assessment. That is the difference between the long process in a complaint-based system and what can be better managed in a proactive system.
On October 19th, 2010. See this statement in context.