- Evaluating individual employees or their performance on the job
- Internal equity or fairness in pay among all job classes and individual employees
- Comparisons between two different female job classes (for example, receptionist and secretary) or two different male job classes (for example, mechanic and welder)
- Comparisons of female and male job classes between different employers
- Setting wages according to market rates of pay
- Women and men in male job classes or gender neutral job classes (these individuals have no entitlement under the Act)
- “Equal pay for equal (same) work” which means that if a man and a woman are doing substantially the same work, for example, a sales job in a department store, they must receive the same pay. Equal pay for equal work falls under Ontario’s Employment Standards Act, 2000.