Yeah, the citation is for the ontario-only version

Okay, so what is the correct citation?

Finding it now

Thanks a lot

Alright

So

https://openparliament.ca/bills/42-1/C-86/

That says the act is right about to become law

https://www.parl.ca/DocumentViewer/en/42-1/bill/C-86/first-reading

There's the act

Thanks a lot

(search for Pay Equity Act)

I'd never have found that

And there is lots of news sources about this that are more...readable

That isn't a drop-in citation yet

I'm looking for that

Okay, good

@asparkofpyrokravte do you know of any occasions of the 1987 act being enforced? This new one is basically a rehash of that on a federal level right? I looked for an example of it being enforced but couldn't find any

@InsaneCaterpilla That's a very good idea. Since it's on a national level now, I'm asuming it will be

Hrm....

This is the Ontario act text: https://www.ontario.ca/laws/statute/90p07

Okeydoke

So for those interested

Search the https://www.parl.ca/DocumentViewer/en/42-1/bill/C-86/first-reading for "Comparison of Compensation" and the Ontario act for "Basis of comparison" and "Comparison of job classes"

Okeydoke

So the important sections to read are the ones I mentioned for those interested

Additionally, for the new act, you can look at the rules for composition of the equal pay committee (or whatever they call it) being at least 50% women (but not at least 50% men)

However

Due to artful legaleze the new act does not say that it only applies to women

Rather it says "an increase in compensation associated with the predominantly female job classes is to be made in such a way that, after the increase, the female regression line coincides with the male regression line."

and "(b) the compensation associated with a predominantly female job class is to be increased only if..."

So it assumes female

but the courts possible maybe, IANAL, could apply this gender neutrally. Or at least as gender neutrally as VAWA

..

So the beginning of the article needs to be rewritten somewhat

I recommend immeidately editing the first paragraph to say:

"Justin Trudeau passed the Pay Equity Act of 2018 earlier this year based on an Ontario act of the same name. The Ontario act was presented as being a measure that guarantees equal pay, but when the language of the bill is examined, there’s a caveat- men are actually not protected, and it is not illegal to pay men less. Take a look (move the link here):"

And then something can be figured out later

At the end of the second paragraph one could append "The new act (link to parl.ca), though less obviously sexist, is also not written in a gender-neutral fashion."

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@Men Are Human