LAW 529 Lecture Notes - Lecture 8: Reasonable Person, Uptodate, Security Guard

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Employment standards act (ontario) concept of equal pay for equal work. Pay equity act (ontario) equal pay for work of equal value . Employment equity act (federal) equal employment opportunity ( affirmative action ) Employers must pay men/women same rate of pay if they perform substantially the same kind of work in the same establishment, based on skills, effort, responsibility, and working conditions. Inequality may be justified by: seniority, merit, productivity, or other non-gender factor. Longstanding rule in effect for 50 years. Complaint driven very few complaints ever filed by employees. Only applies to equalize pay rates across jobs that are substantially similar. Theory: women suffer from inequality in labour market because of job segmentation ie. Women tend to do particular jobs and these are underpaid because they are performed by women. Market failure not properly valuing work because of social systemic bias.

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