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.

Systemic gender discrimination

21.13 For the purposes of this Part and despite subsection 4(2), systemic gender discrimination in compensation shall be identified by undertaking comparisons, in terms of compensation and in terms of the value of the work performed, using the proxy method of comparison,

(a) between each key female job class in the seeking employer’s establishment and female job classes in a proxy establishment; and

(b) between the female job classes in the seeking employer’s establishment that are not key female job classes and the key female job classes in that