- Many people contact me to locate useful
tools for
maintaining their pay equity plans. I can recommend a number of
sources. The Federal Government has published an
excellent Guide to Pay Equity and Job Evaluation. This is a very
helpful tool for evaluating and creating job evaluation systems that
meet the requirements of pay equity. The guide has a number of
chapters, all available in a PDF format as well as in document
form. The guide helps teams identify gender neutral practices in
job evaluation. This is a very
helpful tool for evaluating and creating job evaluation systems that
meet the requirements of pay equity. The guide has a number of
chapters, all available in a PDF format as well as in document
form. Unfortunately, the guides have recently been removed from
the website
of the Canadian Human Rights Commission. However, I have posted
them here: I especially recommend the first
four chapters of Volume 1.
Volume 1,
doc 1 (Title Page)
Volume 1, doc 2 (Introduction)
Volume 1, doc 3 (Chapter 1)
Volume 1, doc 4 (Chapter 2)
Volume 1, doc 5 (Chapter 3)
Volume 1, doc 6 (Chapter 4)
Volume 1, doc 7 (Chapter 5)
You can open them in Adobe (they are
PDF files) and save them to
your computer.
- The Public Service International (PSI) has
some excellent resources on
pay equity, defined more broadly to include what we in Canada often
refer to as employment
equity. For the site of
the PSI, click here
and then click on the
campaigns buttons to find the pay equity campaign.
- I have authored a manual on pay equity and
employment equity for the PSI. Click here
to download the manual. (It is near the bottom of the page.) The
English-language version of the manual is called "Closing the Gender Wage Gap."
The model job evaluation plan is NOT suitable for Canadian workplaces
because of the very low weights given to Effort and Working Conditions.
- The Ontario
Pay Equity Commission has a
list of downloadable
publications on its website. Although the Commission doesn't have any
of its free model JE systems on the site, there are guidelines on
maintenance and pay equity in "proxy" workplaces (establishments with
few or no male job classes for female job classes to compare to).
Click
here
for a list of publications.
The Equal Pay Coalition, based in
Ontario, has recently developed a great new website, with loads of
resources. Click here
to explore that site.
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