My understanding, Madam Chair, is that the pay equity legislation will require employers to set up pay equity committees and also to look at male-dominated and female-dominated employment groups. It will ensure that the female-dominated groups have pay or remuneration equivalent to those of male-dominated employee groups for work of equal value, including skills, work effort and so on.
The legislation sets out a series of criteria, which I won't go over because that would require much more than five or six minutes. It will be an important step in ensuring that work of equal value is recognized at the same level of pay across various groups. It goes beyond work that is identical or similar, but it provides a value to the work that is performed by various groups.
Yes, in that sense it's an important step forward in gender equality and providing for work of equal value as opposed to just the comparison between identical work.