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Pay Equity Resources

  • 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. 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. 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. 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 no longer provides 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 resources.
Ontario pay equity campaign - Spring 2008

Above: Members of the Ontario Equal Pay Coalition
pass out campaign materials in downtown Toronto,
February 2008

  • The Equal Pay Coalition, based in Ontario, has re-developed its website, with loads of resources. Click here to explore that site (equalpaycoalition.org)
  • The International Labour Organization (ILO) has published a very helpful guide to pay equity job evaluation, written by a pay equity expert from Quebec, Marie-Thérèse Chicha.

    Promoting equity: Gender-neutral job evaluation for equal pay. A step-by-step guide Significant gender disparities in pay are amongst the most resilient features of labour markets. This step-by-step guide sets out the various methodological components of the process and explains the criteria, which should be met in order to avoid discriminatory practices.

    Click here for the PDF version of the document from the ILO publications site.

    The ILO document is also available in Spanish and French.