Ontario’s Pay Equity Act

with Selected Case References, 2022

Download: Ontario’s Pay Equity Act with Selected Case References, 2022

Disclaimer: This Guide gives an overview of the minimum requirements of the Pay Equity Act as interpreted by the Pay Equity Office. The interpretations are drawn from our own experiences and by applying the key rulings of the Pay Equity Hearings Tribunal and the courts and is current to the date of publication.

Combined establishments

2. (1) Two or more employers and the bargaining agent or agents for their employees, who come together to negotiate a central agreement, may agree that, for the purposes of a pay equity plan, all the employees constitute a single establishment and the employers shall be considered to be a single employer.

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(2) Two or more employers who are municipalities in the same geographic division and the bargaining agent or agents for their employees or, if there is no bargaining agent, the employees, may agree that, for the purposes of a pay equity plan, all the employees constitute a single establishment and the employers shall be considered to be a single

Employers to implement plans

(3) Despite the fact that the employees of two or more employers are considered to be one establishment under subsection (1) or (2), each employer is responsible for implementing and maintaining the pay equity plan with respect to the employer’s employees. R.S.O. 1990, c. P.7, s. 2.