Pay Equity committee  An assessment of skill, effort, responsibility, and working conditions is the typical way of doing a job evaluation, whether you are doing that for classification purposes inside an employer's organization or for pay equity purposes. The idea behind using skill, effort, responsib

Pay Equity committee  First, I would clarify that PSECA was never brought into force, so those assessments have never been done under PSECA. Our experience with these kinds of evaluations for pay equity purposes is still under the Canadian Human Rights Act. The assessments themselves are still based

Pay Equity committee  There were a few rounds of consultation regarding the development of regulatory policy directions under PSECA. There were consultations done in 2010 as well as in early 2013, I believe. These provided some opportunity to have discussions with stakeholders at the time. We met with

Pay Equity committee  Yes. There were consequential amendments made, I believe, to the Canadian Human Rights Act, but in effect, in 2009 complaints that were at a certain stage in the process and not too far advanced in the Canadian Human Rights Commission process were required to be transferred to th

Pay Equity committee  Thank you, Madam Chair. I was actually looking into this question today and going through the testimony of the previous officials when PSECA was brought into force. Based on the information that I was able to glean from their appearance at the standing committee, apparently ther

Pay Equity committee  Most pay equity systems are looking at compensation that is broadly defined to include wage and non-wage compensation, yes.