Pay Equity committee  Can I just add one thing, Sheri? How often have you heard in an office or workplace that our office couldn't survive without Jane and the work she does? But somehow that never gets reflected in Jane's paycheque. I remember hearing a woman a long time ago say she knew about the

Pay Equity committee  I want to come back to the theme that we also heard while we were listening to the previous witnesses about this needing to be proactive. I want to put you in the position. What if you as legislators all had to have an individual complaint if you thought you weren't being paid fa

Pay Equity committee  I didn't realize that the federal government had now taken over labour legislation in the provinces and territories.

Pay Equity committee  I think what we're saying here is, let's lead the way federally. There is the most extensive pay equity review that's been done, leading to the task force in 2004. It has the recommendations. Let's get on with the work that's there. If we'd acted on it in 2004—guess what?—there

Pay Equity committee  For every woman who's still making 73¢ on the dollar, and that cuts across all sorts of occupations, that's important. We've said that this isn't going to deal with the equally large problems we have around access to affordable, accessible child care. It's the whole question of p

Pay Equity committee  Thank you for the question. We had indicated that we think the onus has to be put on employers to correct the wage disparities, but it's not them operating on their own. That's not going to be a successful plan. In fact, that's the plan they have now. They get to set the wage r

Pay Equity committee  Thank you very much on behalf of the 3.3 million members of the Canadian Labour Congress for this opportunity to present our views on pay equity to this committee. As you know, the CLC brings together Canada's national and international unions, along with provincial and territor