Pay equity? Yes. Absolutely a feminist issue.

The Pay Equity Act was adopted in 1996.

Pay equity has been fully implemented as per the original agreement.

According to a 2002 survey carried out on behalf of the Pay Equity Commission, 39 percent of 3,899 businesses employing between 10 and 49 people have completed their pay equity procedure.

The average salary adjustment, as the result of pay equity procedures, was 8.1 percent.

The Government of Saskatchewan chose to implement pay equity in 1997 through a policy framework model.

On January 9, 2004, the Superieur Court declared Chapter IX of the Pay Equity Act unconstitutional.

The PEI Pay Equity Act was proclaimed in 1988 and was limited to public sector employers.

In 2004, article 11 of the Pay Equity Act was amended to enable an employer and several certified associations to develop an agreement to establish a distinct pay equity program for the employees represented by these certified associations.

Information on the Pay Equity Commission can be found on its Web site www.gov.on.ca lab pec index_pec.html.

This chapter of exceptions allowed employers to be exempt from pay equity procedures if the company could claim that it had already completed a pay equity or salary relativity program before the said Act came into effect in November of 1996.

The task force reviewed models of pay equity legislation and accepted submissions from individuals, employers and trade unions.

Since the implementation of the Pay Equity Act, progress has been made in closing the gap in salaries.

As a result, affected companies will have to conform to all the regulations of the Pay Equity Act.

There has been little or no impact of existing pay equity legislation in New Brunswick in recent years.

The Court rules that Chapter IX maintained, for a number of employed women, a situation of systemic pay discrimination, precisely what the Pay Equity Act aimed to redress.

In February 2002, an independent task force on pay equity created a report entitled Working Through the Wage Gap.

The purpose of the Regulation respecting pay equity in enterprises where there are no predominantly male job classes is to provide two job classes that are typically male dominated to companies where no such classes exist, so they can complete their pay equity exercise.

The Court did not, however, make any pronouncement on the pay equity rights of female health care employees since they had been acquired by contract, rather the question was whether the government was discriminating against women by targeting pay equity compensation in its budget cuts.

The wage gap within organizations that have implemented pay equity under the policy framework has been reduced for those organizations.

Over all, 64 percent of Québec businesses of all sizes covered by the Pay Equity Act have completed their work.

Since 1997, the purpose of the Pay Equity Act is to redress differences in compensation due to systemic gender discrimination.

Consequently, the employer would not have to undertake a new pay equity process under the general provisions of the Act.

All public sector employers are required to achieve and maintain pay equity, as are all private sector employers with 10 or more employees.

It's equity.

The Pay Equity Act originally provided for a proxy comparison method for public sector jobs, which was subsequently struck from the Act in 1996.

The Public Sector Restraint Act, introduced in 1991 to avert a financial disaster, had the effect of postponing the commencement of the pay equity increase and eliminated the obligation to pay the 1988 to 1991 arrears.

Start with equity.

That's my equity.

liabilities plus equity.

This was equity.

liabilities plus equity.

That's my equity.

According to a survey conducted in the autumn of 2003, 62 percent of businesses employing between 10 and 49 people had completed their pay equity efforts.

The bankers retort that they must pay a higher return on any additional equity that they issue, so that more equity would increase their cost of capital, forcing them to raise interest rates on the loans they make, which would reduce economic activity.

Everything on the right hand side is equity, so this is all equity.

Greater pay regulation will drive the most talented away from regulated banks and towards hedge funds, private equity funds, boutique investment banks, and other unregulated investment firms.

i. Gender Equity Policy

Promoting greater gender equity.

Key dimensions of equity

This is my equity.

Pay! Pay!

Pay. Pay.

I pay, I pay. I pay.

At issue before the Supreme Court of Canada was whether the Newfoundland government, by postponing pay equity payments, was violating equality rights of section 15 of the Charter.