Madam Chair, the pay equity regime codifies a set of steps, a set of processes. Employers will need to implement the regime within their workplace, and that would be, of course, a benefit to the employees. Codifying this takes away some of the burden of employees make a complaint to the Human Rights Commission, as it would be a process. There's an office now set up, an office of the pay equity commissioner, that can really focus on the work or the complaints associated with this.
Secondly, now in the federally regulated workforce there's a level of transparency. All employers would have this pay equity regime, so all employees would know that equal pay for work of equal value would be a characteristic of the federally regulated workforce.