@InsaneCaterpilla Just wondering if the law we talk about on the front page of the site only applies to Ontario

@Tomas If you can write about it for us that would be awesome

@Men Are Human Ill give it a go if I manage to finish it Ill let you know

I believe that the 1987 pay equity act was only passed in Ontario. In 2018 it's being proposed on a country wide level legislation

The wording of the 1987 act is absurd to the point of making the bill worthless though

here: A female job class must receive compensation that is at least equal to the compensation that is **paid to a male job class of equal or comparable value**

If they were equal they would likely already be getting the same. I can't find a single case of the act actually being enforced

Also I assume that they have some kind of list of what constitutes a female job class? Anything 50%+ female?

As far as I can tell the entire thing is worthless, and done solely to pander to feminist voters

@Tomas thanks a lot

@InsaneCaterpilla Well it's a relief if it isn't being enforced, but the wording does imply a man could be paid less. I should really have run this by you guys first

However, if it is going country-wide it may be

Yes, the language is definitely gendered to exclude men, probably because they would then have to pay male porn actors more

@InsaneCaterpilla Ah, there we go then. It seems like it is in force

Hmmm

Do you want to take the text and do a couple of edits for clarify?

No thank you mate, its your article, and besides, I'd like to see what @asparkofpyrokravte thinks about my opinion on that particular law

Also I just started watching the final of the apprentice xD

Alright then. It was actually @blueorange22 's article originally, but I made a lot of changes. I may have overstepped.

@Men Are Human Canada is similar to the US in that it has pretty strict regional (provincal/state) vs federal separation of what can be legislated

Everything that is in the https://menarehuman.com/canada-equal-pay/ is talking federal

They are trying to spread this, though, aren't they?

No need to say trying to. I didn't know about the equal pay act of 2018 actually before reading blueorange22's article, but that's a federal version of the formerly ontario legislation

And the Employment Equity Act was federal from the start it seems

I haven't had enough sleep to be talking about this, lol

So, I'm guessing the article is right but the citation is just for the act covering Oneatro?

no, the article is right and the citation is for the federal act (which also explains the history of the act, s tarting in ontario)

the article is completely right in every way and right about Canada as a whole

The link in the article is only for the 1987 pay equality act, needs to be updated to the 2018 one

Oh

I'm wrong

Oh?

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